witimon

Burgundian

Alternative forms

• wittimon, witemon, wittemon, wittemum, wittimo, wittimum
• victimon, victimum, vitimum, vittemon, vittimon, wictimum (Latinized)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wetmô (“dowry”).

Noun

witimon

1. dowry, dower (property given to a bride)
   • Leges Burgundionum, LXIX. De wittimon

References

• Eduard Hermann, Zur Geschichte des Brautkaufs bei den indogermanischen Völkern (1904), especially p. 36: "Burgund. wittimon, wittemon, wittimum, wittemum, witimon, witemon, witamon etc. 'Kaufpreis für die Frau' ²)." and "2) Lex. Gund. 66, 69, 86, ad. 1, 14."
• Gerhard Köbler, Gotisches Wörterbuch (1989), appendix 4 (Burgundian)