heretoga

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English heretoga (“army leader, commander, general”). Doublet of heretog and herzog.

Pronunciation

Noun

heretoga (plural heretogas)

  1. (historical) An Anglo-Saxon army leader or commander; a general; a duke.
    • 1890, James Kendall Hosmer, A Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom:
      Like the old heretogas, they possessed no authority but such as was accorded them by their fellow-tribesmen, though when once constituted they had a power co-ordinate with that of the folk-moot.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *harjatogō. Equivalent to here (“army”) +‎ *toga (“leader”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈxe.reˌto.ɡɑ/, [ˈhe.reˌto.ɣɑ]

Noun

heretoga m

  1. general
  2. duke

Declension
Declension of heretoga (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative heretoga heretogan
accusative heretogan heretogan
genitive heretogan heretogena
dative heretogan heretogum

Descendants
  • Middle English: heretowa, heretoȝe, heretogh, heretoȝæ, heretoche
    • → English: heretog
  • → English: heretoga

References
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