manred

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Vassals collectively; the men a feudal lord can call upon in wartime. countable,historical,uncountable
    — There he was joined by his sons and addition troops, almost certainly more of the Dudley manred from the Midlands.
  2. The primal substance of the Universe uncountable
    — They were made of the manred, that is, of the elements in the extremities of their particles and smallest atom … God was in each of the particles of the manred, […]
  3. Homage, allegiance; support of one's feudal superior. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  4. The leader of a troop or retinue. countable,obsolete,rare,uncountable

词形变化

manreds plural mandred alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English manrede, manred, from Old English manrǣden (“dependence, homage, service, tribute, due”), equivalent to man + -red and a doublet of manrent.
The expected Modern English form would be mandred (like kindred < Middle English kynrede), but the loss of the term from the spoken vernacular has arrested its normal phonological development (this also accounts for the pronunciation /ˈmænɹɛd/).
词源 2
Borrowed from Welsh manred (“atom, mote”), formed from mân (“small”) + rhed (“course, flow”) in the 19th century.
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