English Explanatory Dictionary

Vehm

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A Westphalian tribunal system during the Middle Ages.

Word forms

Vehm Fehm

Etymology

From a form of Middle High German veme (“condemnation, punishment, secret tribunal”), probably ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *faigī (“doomed to die”), see also fey.

Derived words

Vehmic
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