The Durham Account Rolls Vocabulary as Evidence of Trade Relations in Late Medieval England
Journal: Nordic Journal of English Studies
Year: 2021

Words are testimonies to the kinds of historical interactions that took place between the speakers of English and many other languages spoken far beyond Britain’s continental neighbours. This article considers the process of lexical conversion from proper names (more specifically, place-names) to common names, as well as the use of descriptive adjectives or nouns denoting the geographical area from which commodities were exported present in the Durham Account Rolls (DAR). All these lexical items