þegn

From Old Norse þegn, from Proto-Germanic *þegnaz. Cognate with English thane, German Degen.

• IPA^(key): /θɛkn/
• Rhymes: -ɛkn

þegn m (genitive singular þegns, nominative plural þegnar)

1. servant, subject
2. thane

þegn

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of theyn

• þægn

From Proto-West Germanic *þegn.

• IPA^(key): /θejn/

þeġn m

1. servant
2. (poetic) man, warrior, hero
3. officer
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Sebastian, Martyr"

     Þa wurdon hi ealle þurh þæt wundor ablicgede and þæs þægnes gebedda ðe þa gebroþra heold wæs for six gearum for swiðlicre untrumnysse...

     Then they were all astonished at that miracle; and the wife of the officer, who had charge of the brothers, for six years, through a severe sickness...

• þeġnung
• maguþeġn
• meteþeġn

• Middle English: theyn, dain, thain, thayn, thein, þen, þein, þeyn; ðæin, þægen, þægn, þegen, þegn, þeȝn, þeign
  • English: thane
  • Scots: thane
  • → Irish: taen

From Proto-Germanic *þegnaz.

þegn m

1. thane, franklin, freeman, man
2. a good (liberal) man
3. liegeman, subject

• þegngildi n
• þegnskapr m
• þegnskylda f

• Icelandic: þegn
• Old Swedish: þæghn, þiæghn
  • Swedish: tegn, tägn

• þegn in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.