wapentake
英 ['w?p(?)nte?k; 'w?p-]
美['wɑp?ntek]
- n. 小邑
英文詞源
- wapentake (n.)
- division of certain English counties (equivalent to a hundred in other places), Old English w?penget?c "division of a riding," from Old Norse vapnatak, from vapna, genitive plural of vapn "weapon" (see weapon) + tak "a touching, a taking hold, a grasping," from taka "to take, grasp," from Proto-Germanic *tak- (see take (v.)). Perhaps it originally was an armed muster with inspection of weapons, or else an assembly where consent was expressed by brandishing swords and spears.
