geld

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Related terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.4 References 2 Afrikaans 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 3 Dutch 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronunciation 3.3 Noun 3.3.1 Derived terms 3.4 Verb form

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /gɛld/
• Rhymes: -ɛld

[edit] Etymology 1

Proto-Germanic gelda-, Old English gield, "payment", "tribute". Confer Dutch geld "money", German Geld "money", Old Norse/Danish Tongue gjald "payment", Gothic gild "tribute". Also confer "yield". Geld is also spelled gelt or written gild, and as such found in "wergild".

[edit] Noun

geld (plural gelds)

1. Money; notably:
   1. A tribute
   2. A compensation, notably a financial one
   3. A ransom.

[edit] Related terms

• Danegeld
• wergeld

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Old Norse gelda (“‘geld, castrate’”), from geldr (“‘yielding no milk, dry’”), cognate with Old High German galt^[1]. Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌰 (gilþa), “‘sickle’”)^[2]. Confer the archaic German Gelze, “castrated swine” and gelzen (“‘castrate’”), Danish galt (“‘boar’”) (from Old Norse gǫltr (“‘boar, hog’”), cognate with English gilt) and gilde (“‘to geld’”). "gelding" derives from Old Norse geldingr.^[1]

[edit] Verb

to geld (third-person singular simple present gelds, present participle gelding, simple past and past participle gelded)

1. (transitive) To castrate a male (usually an animal).

• 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 16-17

  "Poor old Topaz," said Mrs Flanders, as he stretched himself out in the sun, and she smiled, thinking how she had had him gelded, and how she did not like red hair in men.

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• Notes:

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} “geld” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
2. ^ geld in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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[edit] Afrikaans

[edit] Etymology

From Dutch geld "money", cognate with German Geld "money", Old Norse/Danish Tongue gjald "payment", Gothic gild "tribute"

[edit] Noun

geld (plural geld)

1. Money

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Etymology

Germanic, cognate with English geld, German Geld "money", Old Norse/Danish Tongue gjald "payment", Gothic gild "tribute"

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Noun

geld n. (plural gelden, no diminutive)

1. Money

[edit] Derived terms

geldelijk geldbedrag n. geldboete geldbron geldgewin geldschepping geldsom geldsoort geldstraf geldwaarde geldzaak baar geld n. belastingsgeld n. bibbergeld n. bloedgeld n. goed geld n. giraal geld n. losgeld n. papiergeld n. slecht geld n. weergeld n. zakgeld n. zwart geld n. vergelden (verb) etc.

[edit] Verb form

geld

1. First person singular present of gelden.
2. Imperative form of gelden.