Etymology

gesith

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Today it means: A companion to an athel or king in medieval England; a thegn; a comrade Full definition →

Old English ġesīþ ← Proto-West Germanic *gasinþ ← Proto-Germanic *gasinþô
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*gasinþô
  2. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*gasinþ
  3. Old English · learned borrowing fromġesīþ“companion, fellow, comrade; companion or follower of an athel or king”
  4. English todaygesith

Learned borrowing from Old English ġesīþ (“companion, fellow, comrade; companion or follower of an athel or king”), from Proto-West Germanic *gasinþ, from Proto-Germanic *gasinþô.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.