Old Norse

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle Low German mengäre, from Proto-West Germanic *mangārī (merchant).

Noun

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mangari m

  1. chandler, monger, shopkeeper

Descendants

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  • Old Swedish: mangare

Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “mangari”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive