Þeówetling

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

es;

þeówetling

m. A (poor) slave; the diminutive form seems to be depreciatory in this case :-- Quintianus wæs grǽdig gítsere, deófles þeówetlincg a miserable slave of the devil, Homl. Skt. i. 8, 6. Þeáh ðe hé brúce brádes ríces hé is earm ðeówtling ná ánes hláfordes though he exercise extensive power, he is a poor miserable slave, and not of a single master, Homl. Th. ii. 228, 11. Ǽlc hysecild ǽgðer ge æþelboren ge þeówetling, i. 92, 1. Ǽlces mannes þeówetlingas ða ðrý dagas weorces beón gefreóde, Wulfst. 171, 19. Be teóðunge ... þridda dǽl gá þearfum and earman þeówetlingan, L. Eth. ix, 6; Th. i. 342, 9. Þearfena helpan and þeówetlingan beorgan, L. I. P. 11; Th. ii. 318, 26. Þeówetlingum servulis, Hymn. Surt. 25, 18. Þeówtlingas servulos, 124, 13: 125, 5.

Verwandte Wörter: níd-þeówetling. þeowetling