Etymology

sulung

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Today it means: A unit of land in medieval Kent, comparable to the hide and the carucate. Full definition →

Old English sulung
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  1. Old English · learned borrowing fromsulung
  2. English todaysulung

Learned borrowing from Old English sulung, from sulh (“plough, ploughland”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.