thingman

Etymology
, which is, or else a back-formation from "thingmen", which was borrowed morpheme for morpheme from.

Noun

 * 1)  One of several men gathered at a thing, for example to settle a dispute over a debt.
 * 2) * 2008, The Earliest Norwegian Laws: Being the Gulathing Law and the Frostathing Law, translated from Old Norwegian by Laurence Marcellus Larson, page 63
 * 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.
 * 1)  (One of several) men serving as the army, particularly the mercenary army, (of a specific ruler).