Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eorlcundman

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: eorl-cund-man
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kinsman of an Anglo-Saxon eorl.

Example Sentences

"The eorlcundman was generally, though not necessarily, a freeholder;"
"The eorlcundman is worth his high wergild even if he be landless: the ceorl may attain to thegn-right and yet his children to the third generation will not be gesithcund."
"And so, to Inisfallen and Cashel came the sons of the kings and sub-kings of Munster; and the sons of the privileged, although not royal, classes of airigh – the flatha, owners of landed property and counterparts of the eorls or eorlcundmen of later Anglo-Saxon times;"

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English eorlcund manna.

Inflected Forms

eorlcundmen (plural)

Questions

What does eorlcundman mean?: A kinsman of an Anglo-Saxon eorl.
Where does eorlcundman come from?: Learned borrowing from Old English eorlcund manna.

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