portgerefa
Old English
noun
Definitions
- a portreeve: an office equivalent to a mayor (historical) in several major English towns or (dialect) in various minor boroughs of Wales and Southwest England
Etymology
Compound from Old English port (port, a walled market town, gate) + Old English ġerēfa (reeve, official, steward).
Origin
Old English
ġerēfa
Gloss
reeve, official, steward
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- port English
- portgrave English
- portgreve English
- portreeve English
- porta Latin
- portus Latin
- Portesmuða Old English
- Portesmuðan Old English
- Portesmuþa Old English
- port Old English
- portcwene Old English
- scirgerefa Old English
- ġerēfa Old English
- port Danish