mægth
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of maegth.
Example Sentences
- "Whether, before the name of shire was introduced into Mercia, the several mægths or regions bore any common designation, such as that of gau, must remain in entire obscurity."
- "It is clear from the place-names that the settlement of the Jutes, the Saxons, and the Angles in Britain was largely effected on the principle of allotment of territory to mægths."
- "The numerous earthworks called Maiden Castle, many of them of Celtic origin, were probably used as defensive earthworks by the early mægths."
- "Settlement was by mægths, and the unit of landed property was the terra familiae (hiwisc or hide), which, as involving a kind of house-community with regard to proprietorship and cultivation, was “probably not unlike” the Welsh gwely (p. 141)."
- "[…]an alliance of such mægths and their leading satraps."