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BOOTH (connected with a See also:
TEUTONIC
TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES
Teutonic See also:
ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
root meaning to dwell, whence also " See also:
BOWER, WALTER (1385-1449)
bower ") , primarily a temporary dwelling of boughs or other slight materials. Later the word gained the See also:

SPECIAL

special meaning of a See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market See also:

STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors

stall or any non-permanent erection, such as a See also:

TENT

tent at a See also:

FAIR

fair, where goods were on See also:

sale. Later still it was applied to the temporary structure where votes were registered, viz. polling-booth. Temporary booths erected for the weekly markets naturally tended to become permanent shops. Thus See also:

STOW, JOHN (c. 1525-1605)

Stow states that the houses in Old See also:

Fish See also:

Street, See also:

LONDON

London, " were at first but movable boards set out on market days to show their fish there to be sold; but procuring See also:

LICENCE (through the French from Lat. licentia, licere, to be lawful)

licence to set up sheds, they See also:

GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew to shops, and by little and little, to tall houses." As bothy or bothie, in See also:

Scotland, meaning generally a hut or cottage, the word was specially applied to a barrack-like See also:

ROOM

room on large farms where the unmarried labourers were lodged. This, known as the Bothy See also:

SYSTEM

system, was formerly See also:

COMMON

common in See also:

ABERDEENSHIRE

Aberdeenshire and other parts of See also:

NORTHERN

northern Scotland.

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