Scoppa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Scoppa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an ; Related words: A shoppe or a werkehous

Definitions

1 scoppa

m. A shop, a booth or shed for trade or work (cf. work-shop) :--Hé geseh ða welegan hyra lác sendan on ðone sceoppan (in gazophilacium), Lk. Skt. 21, 1. [The bowiares ssope hii breke, & the bowes nome echon, R. Glouc. 541, 16. Euerych soutere Þ halt shoppe, English Gilds, 358, 22. Marchantz beshetten hyni in here shope, Piers P. 2, 213. Schoppe opella, propala, Prompt. Paroperarium, Wülck. Gl. 599, 10. A schope opella, a hordhows gazafilacium, 730, 3-6. A schoppe opella, a treserhouse gazafilacium, 804, 28, 29. Cf. O. H. Ger. schof a building without walls ; also a vestibule : Ger. schuppen a shed.]

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᚩᛈᛈᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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