geneat – English noun declension

English noun forms of geneat

Noun: geneat
Singulargeneat
Pluralgeneat; geneats

Sample Sentences

  • The tenants, cotsetlas, geburs, and geneats, were the highest among the semiservile. [1861, C. H. Pearson, Early & Middle Ages Eng. I. 201:]
  • The right of the husbandman was a share right, his name was Geneat or sharer in the vill. [1872, E. W. Robertson, Hist. Ess. 101:]
  • In each manor there is the same division into land in demesne and land in villainage, the inland and the geneat land. [1892, F. Seebohm in Hist. Rev. July 458]

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English ġenēat (“companion, follower, follower in battle; dependant, vassal, tenant who works for a lord”). Cognate with German Genosse (“comrade, etc.”) See: German Nouns 'Genosse'.