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thanes
We have found lemma(root) word of thanes : thane.
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[θeɪn], (Noun)
Definitions:
- (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
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Origin
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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’
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