Vocabulary of Domestic Life, Trades and Religious Worship in Old Valencian Inventories: bancs, arquibancs and bacins

Abstract

The aim of this article is to study, from a lexico-semantic point of view and with a diachronic perspective, three words of everyday life in the past, with presence in the domestic, professional and religious spheres. On the basis of these words (bancs, arquibancs and bacins) and from the polylexical units they form, we also study other semantically related words. This work is based on unpublished manuscript documentation of inventories of goods from Valencian notarial protocols of the 14th, 15th and first half of the 16th century.