thrymsa

[ thrim-zuh, -suh ]

noun
  1. a coin of Anglo-Saxon England.

Origin of thrymsa

1
before 1000; borrowed by 17th-century antiquarians <Old English, alteration of trymesa (by influence of thrīe three), genitive plural of trymes<Late Latin tremis a coin, equivalent to Latin trē(s) three + -mis, as in semissemis

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