geld
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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".
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geld (plural gelds)
- Money; notably:
- A tribute
- A compensation, notably a financial one
- A ransom.
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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]
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to geld (third-person singular simple present gelds, present participle gelding, simple past and past participle gelded)
- 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:
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “geld” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
- ^ geld in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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From Dutch geld "money", cognate with German Geld "money", Old Norse/Danish Tongue gjald "payment", Gothic gild "tribute"
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geld (plural geld)
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Germanic, cognate with English geld, German Geld "money", Old Norse/Danish Tongue gjald "payment", Gothic gild "tribute"
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geld n. (plural gelden, no diminutive)
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geld