different between geld vs gels

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ld/
• Rhymes: -?ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English geld and reinforced by Medieval Latin geldum, both from Old English geld, ?ield (“payment, tribute”), from Proto-Germanic *geld? (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?eld?- (“to pay”). Cognate with North Frisian jild (“money”), Saterland Frisian Jield, Jäild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), German Geld (“money”), Old Norse gjald (“payment”), Gothic ???????????????? (gild, “tribute”). 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), see Norwegian Bokmål gjeld (“debt”).

Noun

geld (countable and uncountable, plural gelds)

1. (chiefly archaic or historical) Money.
   1. (historical) In particular, (money paid as) a medieval form of land tax.

Related terms

• Danegeld
• hidegeld
• wharfgeld
• sandgeld
• wergeld
• yield

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English gelden, from Old Norse gelda (“to 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 (“castrated boar”) (from Old Norse g?ltr (“boar, hog”), cognate with English gilt) and gilde (“to geld”). "gelding" derives from Old Norse geldingr.

Verb

geld (third-person singular simple present gelds, present participle gelding, simple past and past participle gelded or gelt)

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

Translations

Noun

geld (plural gelds)

1. A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant.

References

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch geld (“money”), from Middle Dutch gelt, from Old Dutch geld, from Proto-Germanic *geld?, cognate with German Geld (“money”), Old Norse gjald (“payment”), Gothic ???????????????? (gild, “tribute”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lt/

Noun

geld (plural geld)

1. money

Descendants

• ? Sotho: tjhelete
• ? Venda: tshelede

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lt/, (Northern Dutch) [x?lt], (Southern Dutch) [??lt]
• Hyphenation: geld
• Rhymes: -?lt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gelt, gheld, ghelt, from Old Dutch geld, from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geld? (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?eld?- (“to pay”).

Noun

geld n (plural gelden)

1. money

   Synonyms: doekoe, poen

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: geld

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch gelde, probably borrowed from Old Norse geldr (“barren, yielding no milk”), from Proto-Germanic *galdaz, *galdijaz (“barren, unfruitful”). The ultimate origin is uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *g?el- (“to cut”), or from *g?el- (“to shout, cry”).

Adjective

geld (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, of female animals) not pregnant

   Antonym: drachtig

2. (obsolete, of fish) male

Inflection

Alternative forms

• gelt (obsolete)

Descendants

• ? West Frisian: geld

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

geld

1. first-person singular present indicative of gelden
2. imperative of gelden

References

Icelandic

Verb

geld

1. first-person singular present indicative of gjalda

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??l(d)]

Adjective

geld (comparative mair geld, superlative maist geld)

1. Alternative form of yeld

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??lz/

Noun

gels

1. plural of gel

Verb

gels

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gel

Anagrams

• ELGs, ElGs, legs

French

Noun

gels m

1. plural of gel

Anagrams

• legs

Icelandic

Noun

gels

1. indefinite genitive singular of gel