[lojban] Re: Feudal Lords and Peasants

[Bob LeChevalier <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Yanis Batura wrote:
> So. Feudalism is the time when peasants were economically dependant
> (or dependent?) from local nobility, or even were their property.
>
> How to say "peasant"? We have x3 of {cange}, but that's "farmer" or
> "rancher" -- and feudal peasants were not farmers or ranchers.
>
> Your opinions?

tunse'u where they are tied to the land
nolse'u where they are tied to a particular noble
lazyse'u where they are tied to a particular family or clan
selpo'ese'u for a slave, where the emphasis is on the ownership

You can also introduce "non-free" in there, though I would do the 
opposite and use "free land-servant" for villein, since being bound to 
the land tended to be the default.

I think the samurai were either soldier-servants or soldier-nobles; I 
can't remember which.

lojbab



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