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Word: Thane
Speech Type: Noun
Old English theg(e)n ‘servant, soldier’, of Germanic origin; related to German Degen ‘warrior’, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek teknon ‘child’, tokeus ‘parent’
θeɪn
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a man who held land granted by the king or by a military nobleman, ranking between an ordinary freeman and a hereditary noble.
Short Definition:(in Anglo-Saxon England) man who held land granted by king or by military nobleman, ranking between ordinary freeman and hereditary noble
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