different between mesne vs esne

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman mesne, a variant of moien. Doublet of mean.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?n, IPA^(key): /mi?n/

Adjective

mesne (not comparable)

1. (law) Intermediate.

   a mesne lord

   • 1767, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 2: "The Rights of Things", page 60

     Thus all the land in the kingdom is supposed to be holden, mediately or immediately, of the sovereign, who is styled the lord paramount, or above all. Such tenants as held under the crown immediately, when they granted out portions of their lands to inferior persons, became also lords with respect to those inferior persons, as they were still tenants with respect to the king; and, thus partaking of a middle nature, were called mesne, or middle, lords. So that if the king granted a manor to A., and he granted a portion of the land to B., now B. was said to hold of A., and A. of the king ... A. was both tenant and lord, or was a mesne lord : and B. was called tenant paravail, or the lowest tenant; being he who was supposed to make avail or profit of the land.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

mesne (plural mesnes)

1. (law) A mesne lord.

References

Anagrams

• Semen, menes, mense, mesen, neems, semen

Old French

Adjective

mesne m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mesne)

1. Alternative form of moien

Noun

mesne m (oblique plural mesnes, nominative singular mesnes, nominative plural mesne)

1. Alternative form of moien

References

• meien on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English esne, from Proto-Germanic *asnijaz (“day labourer, hireling”), from Proto-Germanic *asniz, *asunz (“reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *os(e)n-, *es(e)n- (“summer, harvest, harvest-time”). Related to Old English earnian (“to labor for, strive after, deserve as the reward of labor, merit, earn, win”). More at earn.

Noun

esne (plural esnes)

1. (Anglo-Saxon, historical) A hireling of servile status; slave.
   • 1818, Samuel Heywood, A dissertation upon the distinctions in society:

     To an esne, therefore, I refer the entry in Doomsday-book, that at Chester, if a male or female slave shall do any […]

   • 1875, William Stubbs, The constitutional history of England, in its origin and development:

     […] 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; […]

   • 2011, David Anthony Edgell Pelteret, Slavery in Early Mediaeval England:

     […] insist that in the event of the death of an esne his full value had to be paid.

Anagrams

• Nees, eens, seen, sene, snee

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *ezene.

Noun

esne inan

1. milk