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menen

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
menen, mennen, minnen, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§599;
A female servant, bondwoman, handmaid
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  • Án menen ł þeówæ

    ancilla,

    • Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 26, 69:

    vernacula,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 123, 37.
  • Mennen

    ancilla,

    • 2, 39.
  • Sunu menenes ðínes

    filius ancillæ tuæ,

    • Ps. Surt. 115, 16: 122, 2.
  • Minenes,

    • p. 200, 6.
  • Be ceorles mennenes niédhǽmede. Gif mon ceorles mennen tó nédhǽmde geþreáteþ,

    • L. Alf. pol. 25
    • ;
    • Th. i. 78. 11-12: Cd. 103
    • ;
    • Th. 136, 14
    • ;
    • Gen. 2258: 97
    • ;
    • Th. 128, 13
    • ;
    • Gen. 2126.
  • Ðeáh hwá bebycgge his dóhtor on þeówenne ne síe hió ealles swá þeówu swá óðru mennen is,

    • L. Alf. 12
    • ;
    • Th. i. 46, 13.
  • CCL ðara monna, esna and mennena

    (servos et ancillas),

    • Bd. 4, 13
    • ;
    • S. 583, 20.
Etymology
[Cf.
Icel. man; n. a bondman or bondwoman
:
O. H. Ger. mana-houpit = a servant; v. Grmm. R. A. 301.]
Similar entries
v. drunc-, mere-, þeów-menen (-mennen).
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