shop

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A building or place where goods or services are sold to the public.

   They bought it at a shop on the beach.

2. 2
   verb

   To go to shops to buy things.

   I shop every Friday when there are good deals to be had.

3. 3
   noun

   A place where things are made or repaired; a workshop or garage.

   The car's in the shop right now for repairs.

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Simplified etymology

Shop entered Middle English as a shortened form of early French eschoppe “lean-to booth.” Its earliest reference was to a small stall or booth rather than the larger permanent premises the word often denotes today.

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skup- Old English scoppa Middle English shoppe English shop From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic). The verb is denominal. The noun senses “act of shopping”, “purchased items” are backformed from the verb.

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