eldertongue

Old English · noun

infangeneþeof

Part of speech
noun, feminine

Meaning

  1. the right to judge one's own thief when taken within the jurisdiction, and the privilege consequent upon that jurisdiction

Etymology

By surface analysis, in- + fangen + þēof

Descendants

infangthief

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