deaþscyld
Old English
noun
Definitions
- capital crime
Etymology
Compound from Old English dēaþ (death) + Old English sċyld (guilt, due, obligation, fault, debt, offence, sin, liability, crime).
Origin
Old English
sċyld
Gloss
guilt, due, obligation, fault, debt, offence, sin, liability, crime
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *dauþuz Proto-Germanic
- *skuldiz Proto-Germanic
- deaþbed Old English
- deaþbedd Old English
- deaþlic Old English
- deaþlieg Old English
- deaþslege Old English
- deaþwerig Old English
- dēaþ Old English
- meredeaþ Old English
- scyldig Old English
- scyldwiga Old English
- scyldwite Old English
- sċyld Old English
- unscyld Old English
- deeth Middle English
- shild Middle English
- *dauþu gmw-pro