bargayne
Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman bargaigne, from bargaigner.
Alternative forms
- bargain, bargan, bargayn, bargen, bargeyn, bargyn, bargynne
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /barˈɡɛi̯n(ə)/, /ˈbarɡən(ə)/
Noun
bargayne (plural bargaynes)
- A pact or concord; a legal agreement with legal force:
- A corporate agreement; a trade deal.
- (rare) A promise or commitment; an obligation due to agreement.
- A project, venture or endeavour.
- (rare) An item or product; a commodity.
- (rare) A situation as an outcome of others' prior behaviour.
- (rare, Northern) A contest or dispute.
- c. 1375, “Book VI”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2), Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 21, recto, lines 431-434; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:
- Thyꝛwall þ[at] was þ[air] capitain / Wes þ[air] in þe baꝛgain slain / ⁊ off his men þe maſt p[ar]ty / Ϸe laue fled full affrayitly
- Thirlwall, who was their commander / was killed there in the struggle / with the greatest part of his men; / the rest fled very frightened.
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Descendants
- English: bargain
- → Scottish Gaelic: bargan
- → Welsh: bargen, bargain
- Scots: bargain
References
- “bargain(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-06.
Verb
bargayne
- Alternative form of bargaynen