Audio (Southern England): | (file) |
From Middle English geld and reinforced by Medieval Latin geldum, both from Old English geld, ġield (“payment, tribute”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Probably reinforced by gelt (which see), see Norwegian Bokmål gjeld (“debt”), Danish gæld (“debt”). Geld is also written gelt or gild, and as such found in wergild, Danegeld, etc.
geld (countable and uncountable, plural gelds)
geld (third-person singular simple present gelds, present participle gelding, simple past and past participle gelded)
From Middle English gelden, from Old Norse gelda (“to geld, castrate”), from Proto-Germanic *galdijaną (“to castrate”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to cut”).
Cognate with Old Norse geldr (“yielding no milk, dry”), German galt, gelt (“not giving milk, barren”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌰 (gilþa, “sickle”). Compare the archaic German Gelze (“castrated swine”) and gelzen (“to castrate”), Danish galt (“castrated boar”) (from Old Norse gǫltr (“boar, hog”), cognate with English gilt and gilde (“to geld”). "gelding" derives from Old Norse geldingr.
geld (third-person singular simple present gelds, present participle gelding, simple past and past participle gelded or gelt)
geld (plural gelds)
From Dutch geld (“money”), from Middle Dutch gelt, from Old Dutch geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą, cognate with German Geld (“money”), Old Norse gjald (“payment”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳 (gild, “tribute”).
geld (plural gelde)
From Middle Dutch gelt, gheld, ghelt, from Old Dutch geld, from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).
geld n (plural gelden)
From Middle Dutch gelde, probably borrowed from Old Norse geldr (“barren, yielding no milk”), from Proto-Germanic *galdaz, *galdijaz (“barren, unfruitful”). The ultimate origin is uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to cut”), or from *gʰel- (“to shout, cry”).
geld (not comparable)
Declension of geld | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
uninflected | geld | |||
inflected | gelde | |||
comparative | — | |||
positive | ||||
predicative/adverbial | geld | |||
indefinite | m./f. sing. | gelde | ||
n. sing. | geld | |||
plural | gelde | |||
definite | gelde | |||
partitive | gelds |
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
geld
geld
ġeld n
Strong a-stem:
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | ġeld | ġeld |
accusative | ġeld | ġeld |
genitive | ġeldes | ġelda |
dative | ġelde | ġeldum |
geld (comparative mair geld, superlative maist geld)