fief · stronghold (district where a particular political party is usually assured of victory)
çekim: çoğul fiefs
köken: From Old French fief, borrowed from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum, from Old Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”), from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep”), from Proto-Indo-European *peku-, *peḱu- (“sheep”). Cognate with Old High German fihu (“cattle, neat”), Old English feoh (“cattle, property, money”). More at fee.
köken: Borrowed from Old Czech léno, from Middle High German lēhen, from Old High German lēhan, from Proto-Germanic *laihną, from Proto-Indo-European *lóykʷ-no-, from *leykʷ- (“to leave”).
köken: Borrowed from Old French or Old Occitan feu/fieu, which was borrowed from Frankish *fehu (“livestock, cattle”), which stems from Proto-Germanic *fehu. The -d- in feudum, feodum was inserted under influence of Latin allōdium, also of Frankish origin. Or possibly the term is borrowed from Frankish *fehu-ôd. Latin feudum is cognate to Catalan feu, which too is borrowed from Frankish *fehu. It is…
aile: feudālis, feudātōrius, feudātus, feudō
ea conventio a feudo degenerat cujus eſt Natura ut incerta ſint ſervitia
fief (a land given by a sovereign to a vassal in exchange for military services, especially in the Middle Ages) · entailed estate (a property given by the king to a person with specific rules of inheritance, in Denmark 1691-1919) · county (a regional and administrative unit, in Denmark until 1662; also used with reference to the län of modern Sweden and Finland)
çekim: çoğul lenene · tamlayan lens
köken: From Middle Low German lēn, from Old Saxon lēhan, from Proto-West Germanic *laihn, from Proto-Germanic *laihną (“loan”), cognate with German Lehn (Swedish län is a loan from Low German). Doublet of lån.