Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA kind of feudal free tenant with military duties, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
Probably borrowed from Medieval Latin drengus, from Middle English dreng (“warrior, retainer”) or its source, Old English drenġ (“warrior, soldier”), from Proto-West Germanic *drangī, from Proto-Germanic *drangijaz, cognate to Old Norse drengr.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Derivation mentiondrengenm · warrior, retainer
- Derivation mentiondrenġang · warrior, soldier
- Derivation mention*drangīgmw-pro
- Derivation mention*drangijazgem-pro
- Cognate mentiondrengrnon
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