Dehme (right)
The Dehme is a term from the tax system of the Middle Ages and the early modern period . It originally referred to a general tax , but later specifically the tax ( pig tithes ) that was payable for the right to drive pigs to be fattened with beechnuts and acorns in the landlord's forest . The term comes from the Middle High German dëhem . In the French form dîme , the Latin origin decima , the tithe , is recognizable.
Based on the main meaning, the following meanings also occurred:
- the right to graze in forests,
- the forest fattening period and
- the fattening pig.
Other shapes (selection)
- Dechdom
- Dechel
- Dechgelt
- Dechtem
- Deheim
- Dehem
- Dyke dome
- Dyke
- Dihme
- Dom
- Döme
- Techant
literature
- Stupid . In: Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 2 , issue 5 (edited by Eberhard von Künßberg ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1963, DNB 453942601 , Sp. 745–746 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - first edition: 1933, unchanged reprint).
- Stupid. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 2 : Beer murderer – D - (II). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1860, Sp. 901 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- GF Benecke, W. Müller, F. Zarncke: Middle High German Dictionary . Leipzig 1854-66, Volume 1, Col. 310b. Digitized version of the University of Trier woerterbuchnetz.de .
