Vehm

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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]

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Vehm

  1. (historical) A Westphalian tribunal system during the Middle Ages.

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  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Fehme”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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