drengとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɛŋ/
• 韻: -ɛŋ

名詞

dreng (複数形 drengs)

1. (historical, UK) A kind of feudal free tenant with military duties, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
   • 1711, “Chapter XVII: Of Tallage”, in Thomas Madox, The Hiſtory and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings of England‎^[1], London: John Matthews, page 480:

     In the reign of K. Richard I, the Theines and Drenges of Northumberland were tallaged. They paid each of them 80 much de Dono (o).

   • 1862, “Appendix T: The Laws of King Henry the First”, in E. William Robertson, Scotland Under Her Early Kings: A History of the Kingdom to the Close of the 13th Century‎^[2], volume 2, Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, page 513:

     Accordingly, long after the Conquest, the Thegns and Drengs of Northumberland, and the Drengs, Thegns, and Villeins of the bishopric of Durham, continued to be tallaged.

   • 2000, “Society and Status”, in Birgit Sawyer, The Viking-age Rune-stones: Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia‎^[3], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 106:

     It is significant that, as Map 2 shows, the main concentrations of thegns and drengs are in the east of the territory that was apparently tributary to the Danish king in about AD 1000.

別の表記

• drenge

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *drangī, from Proto-Germanic *drangijaz.

発音

• IPA^(key): /drenj/, [drend͡ʒ]

名詞

drenġ m

1. (poetic) warrior; soldier

別の表記

• drench

Inflection

派生した語

• Middle English: dreng, dranch, dring, dringch, ðring
  • → Medieval Latin: drengus
    • → English: dreng, drenge
  • >? Scots: dring