yelte

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Middle English

Etymology

From Old English ġilte, *ġielte, from Proto-West Germanic *galtijā, from *galtō +‎ *-jā, from Proto-Germanic *galtô (whence Old Norse gylta, gyltr (“young sow”)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to cut”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

yelte

  1. (hapax) young sow

Descendants

  • English: yelt

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “434”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 434
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