betagh means A tenant that provides food for a household. On Anglo-Norman manors, these workers were servile to their lords. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From Irish biatach, from Middle Irish bíatach (“providing food”), ultimately from bíad (“food”).
noun
- A tenant that provides food for a household. On Anglo-Norman manors, these workers were servile to their lords.“Their unfree status meant not only unfavourable tenurial conditions for the betaghs but also incapacity to plead on their own behalf in the king's courts where they were represented instead by their lord.”