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