English and the Middle Ages

The word trade itself is a dutch word, as is the word mart. English also borrowed lots of other trading terms from dutch in the middle age. In the last episode about vagabonds and thieves, i mention the word booze which was used as a canting or slang term for alcoholic drinks in the mid 15 hundreds. Well, it also entered english as a dutch loan word. The original dutch version of the word meant a large drinking vessel. Now, because of the importance of the wool and cloth trade, english also has quite a few dutch loan words associated with the cloth industry. That includes words like spool, mesh and nap found in the word napkin