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sulung

sulung noun: a unit of land in medieval Kent, comparable to the hide and the carucate.

Noun

sulung (plural sulungs)

  1. (historical) A unit of land in medieval Kent, comparable to the hide and the carucate.
    • The counting of sulungs (as of hides) is a horrible task on which no two scholars agree, and it is not surprising that before the age of the computer Jolliffe made slips and that his desire to find eighty-sulung units sometimes overrode the evidence or the geographical probabilities.2000, Nicholas Brooks, Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400–1066, →ISBN, page 57

Proper noun capitalized: Sulung

Sulung

  1. (dated) The Puroik language.

Forms of sulung

pluralsulungs
alternative formsuling

Origin of sulung

Learned borrowing from Old English sulung, from sulh (“plough, ploughland”).

Questions about sulung

What does sulung mean?
Sulung means a unit of land in medieval Kent, comparable to the hide and the carucate.
What part of speech is sulung?
Sulung can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of sulung?
The plural of sulung is sulungs.

Words near sulung in the dictionary

  1. Sulu boobooks
  2. Sulu Sea
  3. Suluan
  4. suluguni
  5. sulukast
  6. sulung
  7. sulungs
  8. sulus
  9. sulvanite
  10. sulvanites
  11. Sulzbach-Rosenberg

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