Hanse

Significado (Inglés)

1. (historical) A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.
2. (historical) The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies.
3. (historical) A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages.
4. (historical) The Hanseatic League: a commercial association of German towns in the Middle Ages.
5. (alt-of, alternative, historical) Alternative form of hanse, the fees payable to a Hanse or its guildhall.

Traducciones

Hanse

Hanze

Gilde

Hanse

hansa

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/hæns/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: hanse

Cognado con inglés antiguo: hōs

Cognado con latín: consilium

Cognado con ruso: сосе́д

In summary

From Middle English hanse, from Old French hanse (“guild; guild fee”), from Medieval Latin hansa, from Old High German hansa, from Proto-West Germanic *hansu, from Proto-Germanic *hansō (“gathering; coalition; gang of men”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱómsōd (“union; gathering”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by, with, along”) + *sed- (“to sit”). In reference to the Hanseatic League, via German Hanse.
Cognate with Old English hōs (“company, retinue, escorts”),