eld

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (dialectal, rare, uncountable) One's age, age in years, period of life.
2. (archaic, poetic, uncountable) Old age, senility; an old person.
3. (archaic, poetic, uncountable) Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.
4. (archaic, poetic, uncountable) Former ages, antiquity, olden times.

Adj

Old.

Verb

1. (archaic, dialectal, intransitive, poetic) To age, become or grow old.
2. (archaic, intransitive, poetic) To delay; linger.
3. (archaic, poetic, transitive) To make old, age.

Sinonieme

age

old age

years

geezerhood

old

🧓

agedness

antiquity

senescence

ail

oldness

Vertalings

âge

edad

idade

anzianità

ouderdom

vieillesse

vellesa

anys

edat

سِنّ

età

vecchiaia

vecchiezza

ηλικία

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ɛld/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: elde

Geërf van Old English: ieldu

Verwante met Skots: eild

Verwante met Noord-Fries: jelde

Verwante met Duits: Älte

Verwante met Deens: ælde

Verwante met Yslands: elli

Verwante met Goties: 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃

Verwante met Old English: alan

In summary

From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”).
Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), Old English alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old.