sheriffhood
English
noun
Definitions
- The office of sheriff.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English shirrevehod suffix from English sheriff.
Origin
English
sheriff
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- reeve English
- sheriff English
- sheriffdom English
- sheriffship English
- sheriffwick English
- shire English
- undersheriff English
- unsheriff English
- Sheriff German
- seriff Hungarian
- sheriff Spanish, Castilian
- szeryf Polish
- scīrġerēfa Old English
- shirreve Middle English
- shirrevehod Middle English