frumgild

English

Alternative forms

• frumgyld

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English frumġild, frumġyld (“a first payment or compensation”), from fruma (“first”) + ġild, ġyld (“payment”). More at former, geld.

Noun

frumgild (uncountable)

1. (historical) In Anglo-Saxon law, the first payment made to the kindred of a person slain, toward the recompense of his murder.

See also

• wergeld, wergild