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单词 sixhyndman
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sixhyndmann.

Brit. /sɪksˈhɪndmən/, U.S. /ˌsɪksˈhɪn(d)mən/
Inflections: Plural sixhyndmen.
Forms: Old English syxhynde mon, late Old English sexhændeman, late Old English syxhynde man, early Middle English sexhendeman, early Middle English sexhindeman (in a late copy), early Middle English sixhindeman, 1600s sexhendman, 1700s sexhindman, 1800s– sixhyndman, 1900s– sixhyndeman.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English sixhynde , man n.1
Etymology: < Old English sixhynde of a class whose wergild is six hundred shillings ( < six adj. + hund n. + -e, suffix forming adjectives) + man n.1 Compare post-classical Latin homo sixhindus (c1115 in a British source; < Old English).
historical in later use.
A thane of the middle order, having a wergild of six hundred shillings.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific ranks of common people > [noun] > person according to wergild
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eOE Laws of Ælfred (Corpus Cambr. 173) xxx. 64 Gif hit sie syxhynde mon, ælc mon to hloðbote lx scillinga & se slaga wer & fulwite.
lOE Laws: Instituta Cnuti (Rochester) ii. lix. 73 In domo hominis quem Angli nominant..sexhændeman [L. homini sixhindo].
c1210 ( Leges Hen. I lxxxvii. §4 in L. J. Downer Leges Henrici Primi (1972) 266 Si quis occidetur cum [read in] hloþe, reddat interfector weram parentibus,..et omnes qui interfuerint blodbotam [read hloðbotam], sic[ut] emendent tpyfhyndeman [read twihindeman] xxx solidos, sixhindeman [c1225 sixhinde] xl [read lx] solidos.
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor ii. ix. 334 The Sexhendman was the Saxon Sixhyndmon.
1729 G. Jacob New Law-dict. at Hindeni The middle Class [were] valued at Six hundred Shillings, and called Sexhindmen.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. p. lxviii About the opening of the tenth century the Sixhyndman disappeared from the South-country upon the establishment of Thanage (Dienst) as the prevalent tenure.
1935 R. H. Hodgkin Hist. Anglo-Saxons II. 594 First, after the full thegns come a mysterious class of men who, in the Laws of Alfred, are graded with a wergeld of 600 shillings—six-hynd men.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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