heretoga

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English heretoga (“army leader, commander, general”).

Pronunciation

Noun

heretoga (plural heretogas)

  1. (historical, Anglo-Saxon) An Anglo-Saxon army leader or commander; a general; a duke.
    • 1890, James Kendall Hosmer, 'A Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom':
      Like the old heretogas, they possessed no authority but such as was accorded them by their fellow-tribesmen, though when once constituted they had a power co-ordinate with that of the folk-moot.

Old English

Etymology

here (“army”) +‎ toga (“leader”). From Proto-Germanic *harjatugô (“army leader”), which contains Proto-Germanic *harjaz (“army”) and *tugô (“leader”) a derivation of Proto-Germanic *teuhaną.[1] Cognate to Old High German herizogo (German Herzog), Old Norse hertogi.

Noun

heretoga m

  1. duke

Descendants

References
  1. Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “Herzog”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 22nd edition, →ISBN
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