Híred-cniht

According to the Old English Dictionary:

híred-cniht

Add: I. a domestic, III :-- Oncneów Philippus, swá swá fæder, Eugenian, and Auitus and Særgius hyra ágene swyster, and hyra hýredcnihtas hí eádmódlíce cyston, Hml. S. 2, 249. His híredcnihton eallon .v. pund tó gedále, ǽlcon be þám þe his mǽð wǽre, Cat. Crw. 23, 25. [II. an official of a court, v. híred; IV :-- Hírtcynihttes satrapae (cf. gesíþmen, þeignes as glosses to the same passage, 874: déman satrape, 4760), An. Ox. 11, 116.] hired-cniht

Related words: híred;