galanas

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. the blood money or weregild paid by a murderer to the family of his victim under early Welsh law

Pronunciation

/ɡaˈlanas/

Word forms

galanas galanases

Etymology

From Welsh galanas (“murder; weregild”).

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