esne

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hireling of servile status; slave. historical
    — To an esne, therefore, I refer the entry in Doomsday-book, that at Chester, if a male or female slave shall do any […]

词形变化

esnes plural

词源

Learned borrowing from Old English esne, from Proto-West Germanic *asnī, from Proto-Germanic *asnijaz (“day labourer, hireling”), from Proto-Germanic *asniz, *asunz (“reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *os(e)n-, *es(e)n- (“summer, harvest, harvest-time”). Related to Old English earnian (“to labor for, strive after, deserve as the reward of labor, merit, earn, win”). More at earn.
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