wergeld

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Noun — (historical, law) A payment made to a victim, or their family, to make up for an injury or killing, set by the victim's rank.

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Etymology

A learned borrowing from Old English werġeld, wereġeld (“compensation for a man killed”), from Proto-West Germanic *werageld. See also wer and geld.