Vehm
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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.
Alternative forms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]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