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单词 geneat
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geneatn.

/ɡɪˈniːt//jɛˈneɪat/
Etymology: representing Old English ȝenéat = Old Saxon genôt (Dutch genoot), Old High German ginôȥ (Middle High German genôȥ), also ginôȥo (Middle High German genôȥe, modern German genosse), Old Norse nautr < Germanic *ga-nauto-z, < *neut- (Old English néotan to enjoy, use). The original sense is companion, follower, especially in war; in Old English the word was also in use as a legal term = vassal, tenant.
Now historical.
a. A retainer, vassal; one who holds lands of a superior either by service or payment of rent.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > vassal
manlOE
subjectc1350
liegemana1375
liege1377
feudary1387
servant?a1400
vassala1400
feedmanc1460
sidesman1462
feeman1517
feudatary1586
feudatory1765
leud1812
geneat1861
a900 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 897 Æðelferð cynges geneat.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 422/20 Inquilinis [sic] geneat.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 466/11 Parasitis, geneatum, gesoþum (? read gesiþum).]
1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. I. 201 The tenants, cotsetlas, geburs, and geneats, were the highest among the semiservile.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 101 The right of the husbandman was a share right, his name was Geneat or sharer in the vill.
b. attributive, as geneat-land.
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c1000 Laws of Eadgar (Schmid) ii. c. i Ægðer ge of þegenes in-lande ge of geneat-lande.]
1892 F. Seebohm in Hist. Rev. July 458 In each manor there is the same division into land in demesne and land in villainage, the inland and the geneat land.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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