gesithcund

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gesithcund

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Learned borrowing from Old English ġesīþcund.

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  1. not comparable Having the rank of a gesith (member of the king's retinue) in medieval England; well-born. 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.

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@misc{gesithcund_2026,
  title = {gesithcund},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gesithcund},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}