From: bmscotttg
Message: 67811
Date: 2011-06-18
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:
[...]
> I see no basis for Wikipedia's claim that <Venta> meant 'market',
There was apparently a medieval Latin <venta> 'Locus, ubi merces
venum exponuntur' (<http://ducange.enc.sorbonne.fr/VENTA2>), but
that's hardly a sufficient basis. There's some discussion that I'd
not seen before at <http://www.marikavel.org/angleterre/whilton-lodge/accueil.htm>.
Brian