geldingr

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Old Norse

Etymology

From geldr, gelda (“to castrate”).

Noun

geldingr m

wether (castrated ram)

Descendants

Danish: gilding c (Middle Danish gelding)
English: gelding
Faroese: geldingur m

Icelandic: geldingur m
Norwegian (nynorsk): gjelding m
Swedish: gälling c (Old Swedish gældinger)

References

“geldingr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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