English Explanatory Dictionary

frumgild

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In Anglo-Saxon law, the first payment made to the kindred of a person slain, toward the recompense of his murder.

Word forms

frumgild frumgyld

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English frumġild, frumġyld (“a first payment or compensation”), from fruma (“first”) + ġild, ġyld (“payment”). More at former, geld.

Related words

wergeld, wergild
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