One who trades — the Bazaar's counterpart to the artisan: the hands that carry goods between makers and seekers under the dignity grammar's laws.
Old French marchant, from Latin mercari (to trade, to buy), from merx (goods, wares); one who carries goods between makers and seekers.
The hand at the Bazaar that carries goods rather than making them — trade held apart from the artisan's own craft, and answerable to the same house rules either way.