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Yes. The word wergeld is a Scrabble US word. The word wergeld is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word wergeld is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

WERGELD,

6-letter words (7 found)

GELDER,GREWED,LEDGER,LEWDER,REDLEG,REWELD,WELDER,

5-letter words (12 found)

EDGER,ELDER,GERLE,GLEDE,GLEED,GREED,LEDGE,LEGER,LERED,REWED,WEDEL,WEDGE,

4-letter words (30 found)

DEER,DELE,DERE,DREE,DREG,DREW,EDGE,EGER,ERED,EWER,GEED,GELD,GERE,GLED,GLEE,GREE,GREW,LEDE,LEED,LEER,LERE,LEWD,REDE,REED,REEL,WEED,WEEL,WEER,WELD,WERE,

3-letter words (24 found)

DEE,DEG,DEL,DEW,EEL,EEW,ELD,ERE,ERG,EWE,GED,GEE,GEL,GER,LED,LEE,LEG,LEW,RED,REE,REG,REW,WED,WEE,

2-letter words (8 found)

DE,ED,EE,EL,ER,EW,RE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 83 words from wergeld according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of wergeld

wergeld

Alternative forms

  • wehrgeld, weregeld, weregild, were gild, wergelt, wergild

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɛə(ɹ)ɡɛld/, /ˈwɜː(ɹ)ɡɛld/

Noun

wergeld (countable and uncountable, plural wergelds)

  1. (historical, especially in Germanic law) 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, distinct from bloodwite.
  2. (historical, especially in Germanic law) Compensation thus determined and paid; a reparative payment.

Quotations

  • When a wife was killed, her wergeld went to her birth family, not to her husband.
    […]
    A man who committed adultery with another man's wife had to pay the wronged husband one-tenth the amount of his wergeld.

Synonyms

  • wer

Translations

See also

  • blood money
  • Lex Frisionum

References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛʁ.ɡɛld/

Noun

wergeld m (plural wergelds)

  1. (historical) wergeld

Further reading

  • “wergeld”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwerˌjeld/, [ˈwerˌjeɫd]

Noun

werġeld n

  1. Alternative form of werġield

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org