maegth
See also: mægþ and mægþ-
English
Etymology
From Old English mǣġþ (“family group, clan, tribe, generation, stock, race, people”), from Proto-Germanic *mēgaz (“kin”). Cognate with Middle Dutch maech, Dutch maag, Old High German māg, Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌲𐍃 (mēgs, “son-in-law”), equivalent to maeg + -th.
Noun
maegth (plural maegths or maegthe)
- (historical) In Anglo-Saxon England, an extended family, a kind of kindred group; clan, tribe, generation, stock, race, people
- 1885, Thomas Edward Scrutton, The Influence of Roman Law on the Law of England, page 41:
- Every person had two maegthe, […]
- 1923, W. S. Holdsworth, Historical English Law, II. 36:
- The kindred of a person is known as the ‘maegth’.
- 1991, Henry Royston Loyn, Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest, page 307:
- The wider kin, the mægth to seven degrees of kindred, may have been little more than a group that paid and stood guarantors.
- 1885, Thomas Edward Scrutton, The Influence of Roman Law on the Law of England, page 41:
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