wergeld
Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank,…Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide; such a reparative payment or compensation.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, especially, historical, uncountable)Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide; such a reparative payment or compensation.
Wergeld, Manngeld, Blutgeld
ви́раvíra, ве́ргельдvérgelʹd
ви́раvýra
Translations
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Origin
Learned borrowing from Old English werġeld, wereġeld (“compensation for a man killed”), frLearned borrowing from Old English werġeld, wereġeld (“compensation for a man killed”), from Proto-West Germanic *werageld. More at wer, geld.
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Forms
plural: wergeldsSynonyms
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable