heretoga
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Old English heretoga (“army leader, commander, general”). Doublet of heretog and herzog.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌheɹəˈtəʊɡə/
Noun[edit]
heretoga (plural heretogas)
- (historical) An Anglo-Saxon army leader or commander; a general; a duke.
- 1890, James Kendall Hosmer, A Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom:
- Like the old heretogas, they possessed no authority but such as was accorded them by their fellow-tribesmen, though when once constituted they had a power co-ordinate with that of the folk-moot.
Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-West Germanic *harjatogō. Equivalent to here (“army”) + *toga (“leader”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
heretoga m
Declension[edit]
Declension of heretoga (weak)
Descendants[edit]
- Middle English: heretowa, heretoȝe, heretogh, heretoȝæ, heretoche
- → English: heretog
- → English: heretoga
References[edit]
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