ring-giver

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A ruler or chieftain who distributed rings or other valuable gifts to loyal warriors, thanes, or retainers as a means of rewarding service and reinforcing bonds of allegiance and mutual obligation. Old-English,historical
    — This kind of money was probably used by the Anglo-Saxons long after their settlement in England; and the name of "ring-giver," as an epithet of princes, was preserved perhaps to the time of the Norman conquest.

词形变化

ring-givers plural

词源

Literary calque of Old English bēagġiefa, from bēag (“ring”) + ġiefa (“giver”).
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