thane

FREQ #24128

n. 大乡绅, 领主

发音

其它 /θeɪn/

词形变化

thanes 复数 thanes

别名

thegn thayn thein theine

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron.

    历史

    2000, Wulfstan, Robert Boenig (editor and translator), Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, Anglo-Saxon Spirituality: Selected Writings, page 144, Although some serfs escape from their lord and turn away from Christendom to the Vikings and after this it happens that the clash of swords becomes common to thane and serf, if the serf utterly kills the thane, he lies unpaid by all of the serf's kin.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 5

man lord noble citizen nobleman

词源

From Middle English theyn, thein, þein, from Old English þæġn, þeġen, þeġn, from Proto-West Germanic *þegn (“man, warrior”), from Proto-Germanic *þegnaz (“man, warrior”), from Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- (“to give birth”); akin to Dutch degen, German Degen, Old Norse þegn and Ancient Greek τέκνον (téknon, “child”).

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