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German
Etymology
From Middle High German guldīn, gulden (“gold coin”, literally “golden”), from such forms as gulden pfenninc (“golden penny”), but especially from the gulden florīn (“golden florin”), a gold coin from Florence, which became popular in Germanic-speaking Europe since the late Middle Ages. Gulden was the predominant High German word for “golden”, though it was later supplanted by the variant forms gülden and eventually golden. The modern use of the noun in part after Dutch gulden.
Pronunciation
Noun
Gulden m (strong, genitive Guldens, plural Gulden)
- (finance, now chiefly history) guilder (currency of the Netherlands until 2001)
- (history) florin; guilder (mediaeval and early modern coin)
Declension
Further reading
- “Gulden” in Duden online
- “Gulden” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache