geneat

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English ġenēat (“companion, follower, follower in battle; dependant, vassal, tenant who works for a lord”). Cognate with German Genosse (“comrade, etc.”)

Noun

geneat (plural geneat or geneats)

  1. (historical) A retainer; vassal; one who holds lands of a superior either by service or payment of rent.
    • 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.
    • 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.

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Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ganaut, from Proto-Germanic *ganautaz, equivalent to ġe- +‎ nēat.

Pronunciation

Noun

ġenēat m

  1. a companion; associate; vassal

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative ġenēat ġenēatas
accusative ġenēat ġenēatas
genitive ġenēates ġenēata
dative ġenēate ġenēatum

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: net, niet
  • → Medieval Latin: neatus
  • → English: geneat (learned)
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