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
- 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)