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.

Concepten

ouderdom

Synoniemen

age

old age

years

geezerhood

old

🧓

agedness

antiquity

senescence

ail

oldness

Vertalingen

âge

edad

idade

ano

anzianità

vieillesse

vellesa

anys

edat

سِنّ

età

vecchiaia

vecchiezza

ηλικία

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ɛld/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: elde

Overgenomen van Oudengels: ieldu

Verwant aan Schots: eild

Verwant aan Noord-Fries: jelde

Verwant aan Duits: Älte

Verwant aan Deens: ælde

Verwant aan IJslands: elli

Verwant aan Gothisch: 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃

Verwant aan Oudengels: 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.