Geld Definition

gĕld
gelded, gelding, gelds, gelt
verb
gelded, gelding, gelt
To castrate (esp. a horse)
Webster's New World
To deprive of anything essential; weaken.
Webster's New World
noun
gelds
A tax paid to the crown by English landholders in Anglo-Saxon and Norman times.
Webster's New World

Money; notably:

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Other Word Forms of Geld

Noun

Singular:
geld
Plural:
gelds

Origin of Geld

  • From Middle English geld and Medieval Latin geldum, both from Old English geld, ġield (“payment, tribute”), from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Cognate with North Frisian jild (“money”), Saterland Frisian Jäild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), German Geld (“money”), Old Norse gjald (“payment”), Gothic (gild). Also related to English yield. Geld is also written gelt or gild, and as such found in wergild, Danegeld, etc. Probably reinforced by gelt (which see).

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  • From Old Norse gelda (“geld, castrate”), from geldr (“yielding no milk, dry”), cognate with Old High German galt. Cognate with Gothic (gilþa, “sickle”). Compare 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.

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  • Middle English geld Medieval Latin geldum both from Old English geld, gield payment

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English gelden from Old Norse gelda

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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