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名詞

esne (plural esnes)

1. (Anglo-Saxon, historical) A hireling of servile status; slave.
   • 1818, Samuel Heywood, A dissertation upon the distinctions in society:

     To an esne, therefore, I refer the entry in Doomsday-book, that at Chester, if a male or female slave shall do any […]

   • 1875, William Stubbs, The constitutional history of England, in its origin and development:

     […] of British extraction captured or purchased, — or of the common German stock descended from the slaves of the first colonists: the esne or slave who works for hire; […]

   • 2011, David Anthony Edgell Pelteret, Slavery in Early Mediaeval England:

     […] insist that in the event of the death of an esne his full value had to be paid.

参考

• theow

アナグラム

• seen, sene, Sene, snee, eens, Nees

発音

• IPA: /ˈes.ne/, [ˈez.ne]

名詞

esne m

1. a man of the servile class; a servant
   • Laws of Hlothhere and Eadric

     Ġif mannes esne eorlcundne mannan ofslæhð þane ðe sīo þrēom hundum sċll' ġylde, sē āgend þone banan āġēfe ⁊ dō þǣr þrīo manwyrþ tō.

     If a man's servant kills a noble man whose compensation is 300 shillings, the owner shall give up the murderer and also pay the value of three men.

語形変化

Strong ja-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: esne
• → English: esne

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɛs.nɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɛz.ne]

動詞

esne

1. second-person singular present active indicative of sumne (“are you [or are you not]?”)

使用する際の注意点

Used to ask yes-no, polar questions related to existence or being, e.g. Esne senātor? (Are you a senator?)