Where does “Haymarket” come from?
Haymarket derives from English market, from Latin mercatus (a marketplace or trade), from Proto-Indo-European h₂ekʷeh₂ (to exchange or barter).
Haymarket (English): Any of various placenames, particularly a street in the City of Westminster, London, and the Theatre Royal Haymarket in that street
Definitions
- Any of various placenames, particularly a street in the City of Westminster, London, and the Theatre Royal Haymarket in that street
Ancestry of “Haymarket”, step by step
Haymarket traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English market
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | market | A gathering of people for the purchase and sale... |
| 2 | Middle English | market | A market periodic public assembly for buying or selling |
| 3 | Old Norse | markaðr | market |
| 4 | Old Saxon | markat | — |
| 5 | Latin | marcātus | — |
| 6 | Latin | mercatus | trade, traffic, buying and selling; market,... |
| 7 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |