The story
- Old English · learned borrowing fromġenēat“companion, follower, follower in battle; dependant, vassal, tenant who works for a lord”
- English todaygeneat
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.”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.