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   [ez-nee, -ne]
noun
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
Origin:
before 950; < Old English; cognate with Old High German asni, Gothic asneis day laborer, harvester, akin to asans harvest
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esne
O.E. esne "domestic slave," from P.Gmc. *asnjoz- "harvestman" (cf. Goth. asneis), from *asanoz- "harvest."
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