Esne vs Este - What's the difference?
esne | este |
(Anglo-Saxon, historical) A hireling of servile status; slave.
*1818 , Samuel Heywood, A dissertation upon the distinctions in society :
*1875 , William Stubbs, The constitutional history of England, in its origin and development :
*2011 , David Anthony Edgell Pelteret, Slavery in Early Mediaeval England :
As nouns the difference between esne and este
is that esne is a hireling of servile status; slave while este is alternative form of lang=en.esne
English
Noun
(en noun)- To an esne , therefore, I refer the entry in Doomsday-book, that at Chester, if a male or female slave shall do any [...]
- [...] of British extraction captured or purchased, — or of the common German stock descended from the slaves of the first colonists: the esne or slave who works for hire; [...]
- [...] insist that in the event of the death of an esne his full value had to be paid.
