wergeld

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɛəɡɛld/    美 /ˈweɹɡɛld/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. countable,especially,historical,uncountable
    — The first law we find is one of Æthelbirht's:—"if a freeman lie with a freeman's wife, let him pay for it with his 'wer-geld,' and provide another wife with his own money, and bring her to the other."

词形变化

wergelds plural wehrgeld alternative weregeld alternative weregild alternative were gild alternative wergelt alternative wergild alternative

词源

Learned borrowing from Old English werġeld, wereġeld (“compensation for a man killed”), from Proto-West Germanic *werageld. More at wer, geld.
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