So it turns out “shop” is probably French-derived, anyway. Shopping cart is recorded from 1956 shopping list first attested 1913 transf. Sense of “matters pertaining to one’s trade” is from 1814 (as in to talk shop, 1860). Meaning “schoolroom equipped for teaching vocational arts” is from 1914, Amer.Eng. scopf “building without walls, porch,” Ger. *skoppan “small additional structure” (cf. scoppa “booth or shed for trade or work” (rare), related to scypen “cowshed,” from P.Gmc.

Here’s what I found:ġ297, perhaps from O.E. Being a short, “common” word, it’s a good candidate for having descended from Proto-Germanic. parley).Ĭase if point: I figured maybe we should look for older English words (er, you know, Old English words) for this meaning, so I looked up the etymology of “shop”. Because of the Norman Invasion, French had a powerful influence on English and colored the meaning of many loan words (Cf. I understand and sympathize with this sentiment, but I’m afraid it’s probably a bit inescapable. “ artisan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé, 2012.įrom French artisan, from Medieval Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus ( “ skilled ” ), past participle of artiō ( “ I instruct in arts ” ), from ars ( “ art, skill ” ).And why do we always have to go French on this stuff?.( figuratively ) creator innovator inventor.Sartain, Sinatra, Taranis, Trainas, antiars, astrain, sartain, tasiRNA, tasirna, tsarian, tsarinaįrom Medieval Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus ( “ skilled ” ), past participle of artiō ( “ I instruct in arts ” ), from ars ( “ art, skill ” ).Īrtisan m ( plural artisans, feminine artisane).artisan in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.artisan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G.Ukrainian: ремісни́к m ( remisnýk ), ремісни́ця f ( remisnýcja )īread is either cheap (soft, squishy supermarket loaves) or expensive ( artisan bakery loaves).Spanish: artesano (es), menestral m ( historical ).Slovene: obrtnik m, obrtnica f, rokodelec m, rokodelka f.

Polish: rzemieślnik (pl) m, rzemieślniczka (pl) f.Hungarian: kisiparos (hu), mesterember (hu), műves (hu), kézműves (hu).German: Handwerker (de) m, Handwerkerin (de) f.French: artisan (fr) m, artisane (fr) f.Finnish: käsityöläinen (fi), artesaani (fi).Dutch: ambachtsman (nl) m, ambachtsvrouw f, ambachtswerker m.Albanian: zanatçi (sq) m, mjeshtër (sq) m.

Artisan synonym