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Malone compares the word ongen(d) with name of the Swedish king Ongentheow He connects ongen to ing and ang that may be in grade relation, which would be the simplest way of explaining the form Ingentheow in Widsith for the name Ongentheow. The words relate to "spear", "sting" and "prick" and thus to phallus, and the god Ing (Freyr) was a ...
The Norse clan was not tied to a certain territory in the same way as a Scottish clan, where the chief owned the territory. The land of the Scandinavian clan was owned by the individuals who had close neighbours from other clans. The name of the clan was derived from its ancestor, often with the addition of an -ung or -ing ending.
The English word "clan" is derived from old English word clann [1] meaning "children", "offspring", "progeny" or "descendants". According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "clan" was introduced into English in around 1406, as a descriptive label for the organization of society in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.
The word Ateker is a generic term for "related peoples" or "relatives" (the term also refers to clan). [3] It is derived from the root ker , which has two root meanings: fear and respect. Ateker, in its true sense, is a union of free people with mutual recognition and respect for each other.
Greek word for tribe was Phylē (sing.) and Phylai (pl.), the tribe was further subdivided in Demes (sing. Demos, pl. Demoi) roughly matching to a clan. The name Pelasgians was used exclusively by the ancient Greek writers, who referred to the populations they considered the ancestors of the Greeks or "pre-Hellenic".
' tribe, clan '; pl. phylai, φυλαί; derived from Greek φύεσθαι, phyesthai lit. ' to descend, to originate ') is an ancient Greek term for tribe or clan. [1] Members of the same phyle were known as symphyletai (Greek: συμφυλέται) meaning 'fellow tribesmen'. [2]
Every Pashtun tribe is then divided into subtribes, also called khel or zai. Zai in Pashto means "descendant". William Crooke has said that khel is from an Arabic word meaning "association" or "company". [11] A khel is often based in a single village, [12] but it may also be based on a larger area including several villages, or part of a town ...
The Sanskrit epic Mahabharata contains several enumeration of tribes or clans.. The earliest terms used "clan" or "tribe" in Vedic Sanskrit were jana and vis. Heinrich Zimmer regarded the word vis to denote a social structure identical with the English "tribe", and different from a grama which, he considered, represented a "clan"—midway between "family" (kula) and tribe.