Etymology

galanas

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Today it means: the blood money or weregild paid by a murderer to the family of his victim under early Welsh law Full definition →

Welsh galanas
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  1. Welsh · borrowed fromgalanas“murder; weregild”
  2. English todaygalanas

From Welsh galanas (“murder; weregild”).

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