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”).
It comes from a mix of Old French, German and Old English. Eschoppe from Old French (meaning booth), Schopf from German (meaning porch), and Shippon from Old English (meaning cattle shed). So the first usage of the word can be traced to mean a booth or porch where cattle was bought and sold.
The nouns shop and store are used somewhat differently in American and British English. In general, Americans use store the way the British use shop — to describe any room or building where people can buy things or pay for a service.
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What are big shops called?
A big-box store (also hyperstore, supercenter, superstore, or megastore) is a physically large retail establishment, usually part of a chain of stores. The term sometimes also refers, by extension, to the company that operates the store.
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In Britain, they call it a shop. It seems to be something to do with America being very business centered as in "this is a place for our retailers to store their items to sell", whereas in Britain it would be more "this is a place for our population to shop for things that they need".
The Roman forum was arguably the earliest example of a permanent retail shop front. In antiquity, exchange involved direct selling via merchants or peddlers and bartering systems were commonplace.
Etymology. From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”).
Believe it or not, the oldest recorded English name is Hatt. An Anglo-Saxon family with the surname Hatt are mentioned in a Norman transcript, and is identified as a pretty regular name in the county. It related simply to a hat maker and so was an occupational name.
There were no stores in medieval times. Goods could be purchased in two places; markets and shops. Markets would be a regional event, an open-air affair that happened occasionally. Cities would have “market days” once or twice a week; towns and villages would have them once or twice a month.
These general stores, mercantile's, or emporiums, served rural populations of small towns and villages, and the farmers and ranchers in the surrounding areas.
Fish was usually sold in markets, since it had to be transported from the coast. Smiths, weavers, butchers, bakers, carpenters, drapers (selling woollen cloth) and mercers (selling linen) had shops.
United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, terms in common usage include "supermarket" (for larger grocery stores), "corner shop", "convenience shop", or "grocery" (meaning a grocery shop) for smaller stores.
also sweetshop. Word forms: plural sweet shops. countable noun. A sweet shop is a small shop that sells sweets and cigarettes, and sometimes newspapers and magazines. [British]regional note: in AM, use candy store.
A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based food baked in an oven such as bread, cookies, cakes, doughnuts, bagels, pastries, and pies.
noun,plural em·po·ri·ums, em·po·ri·a [em-pawr-ee-uh, -pohr-]. a large retail store, especially one selling a great variety of articles. a place, town, or city of important commerce, especially a principal center of trade: New York is one of the world's great emporiums.
ˈde-lē plural delis. : a store where ready-to-eat food products (such as cooked meats and prepared salads) are sold : delicatessen. You shuffle off to the deli and pick up a pastrami-on-rye and an egg cream.
