Thang/Thing: Jury of some size: the governing assembly of free people, made up o

Thang/Thing: Jury of some size: the governing assembly of free people, made up of the community’s chieftains and farmers. It was used for early forms of legislative and judicial governance in Germanic and other Northern European societies.
– From a PIE *tenk- (1), from root *ten- “stretch,” perhaps on notion of “stretch of time for a meeting or assembly.”
– The Germanic word is perhaps literally “appointed time,”
– From Proto-Germanic *thinga- “assembly”
– From Old Norse þing “public assembly”).
– Old High German ding “public assembly for judgment and business, lawsuit,” German Ding “affair, matter, thing,”
– From Old English þing “meeting, assembly, council, discussion,” later “entity, being, matter” (subject of deliberation in an assembly). Also “act, deed, event, material object, body, being, creature” .
– The sense “meeting, assembly” did not survive Old English.

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