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healsfang

noun

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English healsfang (“fine prescribed in substitution for capital and other punishments”, literally “neck-taking", or "taking by the neck”), equivalent to halse + fang. Cognate with Icelandic hálsfang (“embracing”).

  1. derived from *peh₂ḱ-✻
  2. inherited from *fanhaną✻
  3. derived from fanga
  4. inherited from fōn
  5. inherited from fangen
  6. compounded as healsfang — “halse + fang”

Definitions

  1. In Anglo-Saxon law, a fine or mulct of uncertain character.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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