maegth

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/mæɡθ/

noun

In Anglo-Saxon England, an extended family, a kind of kindred group; clan, tribe, generation, stock, race, people

OriginOld English mǣġþ →
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Meanings

nounmaegth (plural maegths or maegthe)

plural maegths · plural maegthe · alternative mægth

  1. historicalIn Anglo-Saxon England, an extended family, a kind of kindred group; clan, tribe, generation, stock, race, people

    Every person had two maegthe, […]

    1885, Thomas Edward Scrutton, The Influence of Roman Law on the Law of England, page 41
    2 more examples

    The kindred of a person is known as the ‘maegth’.

    1923, W. S. Holdsworth, Historical English Law, II. 36

    The wider kin, the mægth to seven degrees of kindred, may have been little more than a group that paid and stood guarantors.

    1991, Henry Royston Loyn, Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest, page 307

Origin

  1. Old Englishmǣġþ“family group, clan, tribe, generation, stock, race, people”
  2. Englishmaegth

Learned borrowing from Old English mǣġþ (“family group, clan, tribe, generation, stock, race, people”).

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