frumgild
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Old English frumġild, frumġyld (“a first payment or compensation”), from fruma (“first”) + ġild, ġyld (“payment”). More at former, geld.
Noun[edit]
frumgild (uncountable)
- (historical) In Anglo-Saxon law, the first payment made to the kindred of a person slain, toward the recompense of his murder.