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- Old English · learned borrowing fromwitena ġemōt
- English todaywitenagemot
Learned borrowing from Old English witena ġemōt (literally “assembly of the wise”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Today it means: Any of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, initially with regional jurisdiction (there being different ones in Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex), later with national jurisdiction, made up of important noblemen. Full definition →
Old English witena ġemōt