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Thane
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- 1 A large city and district of Maharashtra, India, part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
- 1 A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron. historical
"The Anglo-Saxon thanes were in all respects the predecessors of the Norman barons. The title of thane seems to have supplanted that of gesith, which appears only in the earner Anglo-Saxon laws, a denomination that may originally have designated the attendants or companions of the king, and whose wergild being triple that of the simple freeman, were, therefore, denominated not only gesithcund men, but six-hynde men."
- 2 a man ranking above an ordinary freeman and below a noble in Anglo-Saxon England (especially one who gave military service in exchange for land) wordnet
- 3 a feudal lord or baron wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English theyn, thein, þein, from Old English þæġn, þeġen, þeġn, from Proto-West Germanic *þegn (“man, warrior”), from Proto-Germanic *þegnaz (“man, warrior”), from Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- (“to give birth”); akin to Dutch degen, German Degen, Old Norse þegn and Ancient Greek τέκνον (téknon, “child”).
Transliteration of Marathi ठाणे (ṭhāṇe). Doublet of thana.
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