The story
- Old English · inherited fromælmesfeoh
- English todayalms-fee
From Old English ælmesfeoh, from ælmesse (“alms”) + feoh (“money”). See fee.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
alms-fee
Today it means: An annual tax of one penny on every hearth, collected in England and Ireland and sent to Rome, from the beginning of the tenth century until it was abolished by Henry VIII. Full definition →
Old English ælmesfeoh