híwscipe

híwscipe
m (-es/-as) family, household; hide (of land)

Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.

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  • hígscipe — see híwscipe …   Old to modern English dictionary

  • family — (n.) c.1400, servants of a household, from L. familia family servants, domestics; also members of a household, including relatives and servants, from famulus servant, of unknown origin. Ancestral sense is from early 15c.; household sense recorded …   Etymology dictionary

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