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单词 gesith
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gesithn.

Etymology: Old English gesíþ companion = Old Saxon gisîð, Old High German gi-sind (German gesind).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: geˈsith.
Anglo-Saxon History.
An attendant or companion of a king; hence, like medieval Latin comes count n.2, used as a designation of rank.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun]
followereOE
youngereOE
retenantc1390
suitora1398
waitera1500
retainer1508
pursuivant1513
villein1534
consequent1550
backmanc1560
janissary1565
jackman1566
hensure1568
belonger1577
lackey1588
sequent1598
pedissequant1607
henchman1754
gesith1861
ministerialis1888
1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 72 Dependent on the king, and on the nobles, were the gesith or thanes.
1881 Athenæum 17 Sept. 360/2 The personal followers, the gesiths or thegns, on the one hand, and on the other the independent nobility and the national militia.

Compounds

gesith-socn n. an alleged Old English division of the county.But the word is spurious: see Stubbs Select Charters Glossary at Sithessocna, and Bosworth-Toller at Scip-fylleð.
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1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 118 Every county was at this time divided into Hundreds and Gesith-socns.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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