Vehm
English edit
Etymology edit
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.[1]
Proper noun edit
Vehm
- (historical) A Westphalian tribunal system during the Middle Ages.
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Translations edit
Westphalian court in the Middle Ages
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References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Fehme”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891