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cattlewealth

noun

Etymology

From cattle + wealth.

  1. derived from *wel-✻ — “good, best”
  2. inherited from *walô✻ — “well-being, prosperity”
  3. inherited from wela — “wealth, prosperity”
  4. inherited from *waliþu✻ — “wealth”
  5. inherited from *welþ✻
  6. inherited from welth
  7. compounded as cattlewealth — “cattle + wealth”

Definitions

  1. Wealth measured in the number of cattle owned.

    • The cattlewealth seems to be related partly to the amount of land possessed by the groups and partly to their respective emphasis on the types of economy.
    • Since everything, therefore, depends on the groom’s cattlewealth (meaning by this both the animals he actually possesses and those he can obtain from relatives and friends), it follows that actual bridewealth payments vary in amount.
    • To Dinka youth, cattlewealth has an aesthetic significance far above its material value.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA