Weistum
German (Berlin)
/ˈvaɪ̯stuːm/
noun
Definitions
- (medieval law) legal sentence, award chiefly regarding communities in rural areas with partially oral legal traditions
- (historical legal text) written records on legal issues, legal customs and legal instructions chiefly used in plural
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German wīstuom inherited from Old High German wīstuom suffix from German weise.
Origin
German (Berlin)
weise
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiwisdom English
- doom English
- unwisdom English
- wisdom English
- wisdom tooth English
- wisdomless English
- wisdomwise English
- wise English
- worldwisdom English
- Weiser German
- unweise German
- weise German
- wisdom Middle English
- vísdómr Old Norse
- vís Icelandic
- vísdómstönn Icelandic
- vísdómur Icelandic
- wīstuom Old High German
- wīse Middle High German
- wīstuom Middle High German