thingman

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of several men gathered at a thing, for example to settle a dispute over a debt. historical,plural-normally
    — Now if the debtor pleads that "I do not know the law but I will comply with whatever the thingmen think lawful," he [the creditor] must summon him before the thing after five nights, at the shortest, and five times five at the longest, if he knows when the thing is to meet; […] it is then the duty of the thingmen to decide the matter and to award him his money.
  2. (One of several) men serving as the army, particularly the mercenary army, (of a specific ruler). historical,plural-normally
    — A thingman and chieftain owed each other duties of support. […] The ideal is well stated by Eyjolf to his own thingmen as he requests their support in his struggles against the Ljosvetning kin group […]

词形变化

thingmen plural

词汇关系

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词源

Calque of Old Norse thingman, which is þing (“thing”) + maðr (“man”), or else a back-formation from "thingmen", which was borrowed morpheme for morpheme from þingmenn (“thingmen”).
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