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Lex Frisionum (8th century)

Certain

• weregild (“weregild”) — Proto-Germanic *werageldą
• thiubda (“theft”) — Proto-Germanic *þiubiþō
• brand (“arson”) — Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“fire”)
• notnumfti (“violent robbery”) — Proto-Germanic *naudiz (“need, force”) + *numþiz (“taking”)
• farlegani (“adultery”) — Proto-West Germanic *fraliggjan (“to sleep around”)
• bortmagad (“table-maiden; maidservant who neither milks nor churns”) — Proto-Germanic *burdą (“table”) + *magaþs (“maiden”)
• tenos (“twigs used as lots”) — Proto-Germanic *tainaz (“twig, stick”)
• mordrito (“murder”) — related to Proto-Germanic *murþrą (“murder”)
• dolg (“wound”) — Proto-Germanic *dulgą (“enmity”)
• durslegi (“dry blow; assault which spills no blood”) — Proto-Germanic *þursuz (“dry”) + *slahaną (“to beat, strike”) + *-į̄
• wlitiwam (“face mutilation”) — Proto-Germanic *wlitiz (“face”) + *wammaz (“blemish”)
• liduwagi (“phalanx water”) — Proto-Germanic *liþuz (“limb”) + *wēgaz (“wave”)
• cladolg (“scratch wound”) — Proto-Germanic *klawjaną (“to claw, scratch”) + *dulgą (“enmity”)
• fredo (“peace(-money)”) — Proto-Germanic *friþuz (“peace, frith”)
• smelido (“shrinking in size of an injured limb”) — Proto-Germanic *smaliþô
• herthamon (“pericardium”) — Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”) + *hamô (“covering”)

Latinised

• harpatorem (“harpist”) — Proto-Germanic *harpą
• granones (“whiskers”) — Proto-Germanic *granō
• lito (“serf”) — Compare Old Dutch lito (“serf”)

Uncertain

• forresni (“instigation”) — ?
• mithridri (“midriff”) — Old English midhriþere, Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid”) + ?
• screona (“weaver’s hut”) — ?
• sipido (“type of scar”) — Old Frisian sipda, spido, septa, septha
• smelo (“upper phalanx of the thumb”) — ?
• pant (“seizure of a slave as a pledge”) — Compare German Pfand
• fresum (“a type of Frisian fabric”) — ?