ceapmann

• ċēapman, cȳpman, cȳpeman

From Proto-West Germanic *kaupamann; equivalent to ċēap +‎ mann.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæ͜ɑːpˌmɑnn/, [ˈt͡ʃæ͜ɑːpˌmɑn]

ċēapmann m

1. businessman, merchant
   • Wonders of the East

     Sēo landbūend is swīþost cȳpemonnum ġeseted. Þǣr bēoð weðeras ācennede on oxna micelnesse...

     That colony is mostly settled by merchants. There, rams are born the size of oxen...

Strong consonant stem:

• Middle English: chapman, capman, chepman, chipman, schapman, schipman, shapmann, chapmon, chepmon (Early Middle English), chæpmon (Laȝamon's Brut), chappmann (Ormulum)
  • English: chapman
    • ⇒ English: chap
      • Pennsylvania German: Tschaepp (“guy”)
  • Scots: chapman

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ċēapmann”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.