mang

n. [cp. mid. Lat. mangonus; A. S. mangian, to traffic; mangere, a trader, which survives in Engl. iron-monger, scandal-monger; derived from manig, from traffic in mingled, miscellaneous things; as manga is used in Kormak, and even in a derived sense, it need not be borrowed from the A. S., but may be a genuine Norse word formed from margr at a time when the n had not as yet changed into r]:—‘monging,’ ‘mongery,’ barter; allir þeir menn, bæði konur ok karlar, er með mangi fara, hvárt sem þeir hafa mang sitt í búðum eðr stræti, N. G. L. ii. 204; laxa nýja ok svá aðra nýja fiska ok ostrur þat skal kaupa á bátum eðr á bryggjum en vill, en eigi flytja í búðir til mangs, 263; prestar skulu eigi fara með mangi né okri, H. K. ii. 53. mangs-maðr, m. a monger, Ld. 146.