geld

Senso (English)

Noun

1. Money.
2. Money.

Verb

To tax geld.

Verb

1. To castrate a male (usually an animal).
2. To deprive of anything essential; to weaken.

Synonyms

castrate

emasculate

cut

desex

neuter

sterilize

unsex

demasculinise

unman

demasculinise

cut out

demasculinize

caponise

hysterectomize

demasculinize

alter

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɡɛld/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglese medio: geld

Inherited from inglese antico: geld

Cognate with norvegese bokmål: gjeld

Cognate with danese: gæld

Cognate with frisone settentrionale: jild

Cognate with saterfriesisch: Jield

Cognate with olandese: geld

Cognate with tedesco: Geld

Cognate with norse antico: gjald

Cognate with gotico: 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳

Cognate with inglese: yield

Inherited from inglese medio: gelden

Cognate with norse antico: geldr

Cognate with tedesco: galt

Cognate with gotico: 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌰

Cognate with tedesco: Gelze

Cognate with danese: galt

Cognate with norse antico: gǫltr

Cognate with inglese: gilt

Cognate with norse antico: geldingr

In summary

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.
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian jild (“money”), Saterland Frisian Jield, Jäild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), German Geld (“money”), Old Norse gjald (“payment”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳 (gild, “tribute”). Also related to English yield.