thingman means one of several men gathered at a thing, for example to settle a dispute over a debt. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
Calque of Old Norse thingman, which is þing (“thing”) + maðr (“man”), or else a back-formation from "thingmen", which was borrowed morpheme for morpheme from þingmenn (“thingmen”).
noun
- One of several men gathered at a thing, for example to settle a dispute over a debt.“Now if the debtor pleads that "I do not know the law but I will comply with whatever the thingmen think lawful," he [the creditor] must summon him before the thing after five nights, at the shortest, and five times five at the longest, if he knows when the thing is to meet; […] it is then the duty of the thingmen to decide the matter and to award him his money.”
- (One of several) men serving as the army, particularly the mercenary army, (of a specific ruler).“A thingman and chieftain owed each other duties of support. […] The ideal is well stated by Eyjolf to his own thingmen as he requests their support in his struggles against the Ljosvetning kin group […]”