different between galt vs gelt

English

Noun

galt

1. Alternative form of gault

Anagrams

• LGAT

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German galt, from Old High German galt, perhaps the past participle of galan (“to sing, do magic, bewitch”) (from the belief that sterile or un-milch cows are bewitched), from Proto-Germanic *galan? (“to shout, yell; to charm; to sing”).

Compare Cimbrian galt (“not milch; barren”), Carinthian galt (“infertile or pregnant (therefore not milch)”), Swabian gall (“(of sheep) not pregnant”), German gelt (“infertile”), Tyrolean galt (“unfarmed land”), Danish gold (“barren; sterile; not milch”), Old Swedish galdvider (“barren tree”).

Adjective

galt

1. (Uri, of cows) Not milch.

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.
• „galt“, in: Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm, Erstbearbeitung (1854–1960), digitalisierte Version im Digitalen Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, abgerufen am 23.05.2020.

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German galt, from Old High German galt, perhaps the past participle of galan (“to sing, do magic, bewitch”) (from the belief that sterile or un-milch cows are bewitched), from Proto-Germanic *galan? (“to shout, yell; to charm; to sing”).

Compare Alemannic German galt (“not milch”), Carinthian galt (“infertile or pregnant (therefore not milch)”), Swabian gall (“(of sheep) not pregnant”), German gelt (“infertile”), Tyrolean galt (“unfarmed land”), Danish gold (“barren; sterile; not milch”), Old Swedish galdvider (“barren tree”).

Adjective

galt (Sette Comuni)

1. (especially of cows) Not milch.

2. (also of human women) barren, infertile

Declension

References

• “galt” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
• „galt“, in: Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm, Erstbearbeitung (1854–1960), digitalisierte Version im Digitalen Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, abgerufen am 23.05.2020.

German

Pronunciation

Verb

galt

1. first/third-person singular preterite of gelten

Icelandic

Verb

galt

1. first-person singular past indicative of gjalda
2. third-person singular past indicative of gjalda

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

galt

1. neuter singular of gal

Adverb

galt

1. wrong

References

• “gal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• galte

Etymology

From Old Norse galti, galtr, g?ltr, from Proto-Germanic *galtuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lt/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

galt m (definite singular galten, indefinite plural galtar, definite plural galtane)

1. a male pig, especially one that is castrated

   Synonyms: hanngris, råne

References

• “galt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• lagt

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish galter, from Old Norse g?ltr, from Proto-Germanic *galtô.

Noun

galt c

1. boar; male pig

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

galt

1. supine of gala.

Anagrams

• lagt

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Etymology 1

From Irish geilt.

Noun

gelt (plural gelts)

1. (rare) A lunatic.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.7:

     She […] like a ghastly Gelt whose wits are reaved, / Ran forth in hast with hideous outcry […]

Etymology 2

Variation of gilt.

Noun

gelt (plural gelts)

1. (obsolete) Gilding; gilt.

Etymology 3

See geld.

Verb

gelt

1. simple past tense and past participle of geld

Noun

gelt (plural gelts)

1. A gelding.

Etymology 4

In the basic sense of "money", attested since the early 16th century, initially from (an Early New High German continuation of) Middle High German gelt (modern German Geld), from Old High German gelt (“payment, money”), or in some cases from (an Early Modern Dutch continuation of) Middle Dutch gelt. Later, and in the Jewish-related senses, from Yiddish ????? (gelt). The German, Dutch and Yiddish words are all from Proto-Germanic *geld? (“reward, gift, money”). Doublet of native words geld and yield.

Noun

gelt (usually uncountable, plural gelts)

1. (originally Britain, especially thieves' cant and Polari, later Judaism and general slang) Money.
   • c. 1529, John Skelton, The Tunning of Elynour Rummyng, 610:

     That nothynge had / There of theyr awne / Neyther gelt nor pawne.

   • 1591 (1685), Henry Wotton, in Reliquiae Wottonianae, 616:

     It amounts to not above 12000 Fr. Rhenish, yearly, in bare gelt.

   • 1816, Egbert Benson, in a memoir read before the New York Historical Society [in 1816], quoted in History of the School of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church (1883), page 22:

     I saw him at the house of my parents; I in my earliest youth, he approaching to fourscore. He was on his way to collect the Dominie's gelt; for the Dutch always took care the stipend to the minister should be competent, that so he never might be straitened 'to desire a gift.'

   • 1852, Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose And, The Black Dwarf:

     "And yet," said Captain Dalgetty, "my second and greatest difficulty remains behind; for, although I hold it a mean and sordid thing for a soldado to have nothing in his mouth but pay and gelt, like the base cullions, the German lanz-knechts, whom I mentioned before; […] yet, ex contrario, a soldier's pay being the counterpart of his engagement of service, it becomes a wise and considerate cavalier to consider what remuneration he is to receive for his service, […]

   • 1948, William Burroughs, letter, 5 Jun 1948:

     Have bought some farm land in Rio Grande Valley which should bring in a sizeable bundle of gelts come cotton picking time.

   • 1969, Robert L. Vann, The Competitor (volumes 2-3, page 135)

     The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!

2. Tribute; tax.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey

     All these the king granted unto them […] free from all gelts [guilds] and payments, in a most full and ample manner.

3. (Judaism) Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
4. (Judaism) Chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah and often used for games of dreidel.

Derived terms

• (thieves' cant): rum-gelt (“new money”), smear-gelt (“bribe”)

References

Icelandic

Etymology

Back-formation from gelta (“to bark”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /c?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t

Noun

gelt n (genitive singular gelts, no plural)

1. barking

   Synonyms: gjamm, gá

Declension