This article is about the leader. For the British tank, see The Chieftain was the Main battle tank of the United Kindom during the 1960s and 1970s. It was one of the most advanced tanks of its time, having the most powerful main gun and armour of any tank in the world until the late 1970s. Contents // 1 Overview 2 Specifications... Chieftain tank.

A chieftain is the leader or head of a group, especially of a For other uses, see ... Clan (disambiguation). A clan is a group of people united by Kinship and descent is one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology. Cultures worldwide possess a wide range of systems of tracking kinship and descent. Anthropologists break these down into simple concepts which are common... clan or This article is on the social structure. There are also articles on the biological tribe, the musical group Tribe, and the Tribes video game series. Viewed historically or developmentally, a tribe consists of a social formation existing before the development of, or outside of, states. Many people use the term... tribe. See e.g. In heathen times chieftains were both political and religious leaders, tasked to use their luck to secure the people fred (translated good times - nowadays actually the word for peace). Luck was considered the sign of the leader. He was appointed leader, who possessed a great luck. But the luck could... Germanic chieftain.

Etymology: Middle English is the name given to an early form of the English language that was in common use from roughly the 12th to the 15th centuries— from after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror in 1066 to around the introduction of the printing press by William Caxton... Middle English cheftain, from Old French is a term sometimes used to refer to the langue doïl, the continuum of varieties of Romance language spoken in territories corresponding roughly to the northern half of modern France and parts of Belgium and Switzerland during the period roughly from 1000 to 1300 A.D... Old French chevetain, from Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris) is a blanket term covering the vernacular dialects of the Latin language spoken mostly in the western provinces of the Roman Empire until those dialects, diverging still further, evolved into the early Romance languages — a distinction usually assigned to about the ninth century... Late Latin capitaneus, from For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages... Latin caput, head. In other words, it is related to the contemporary word captain.