different between goud vs gaud

English

Etymology 1

Compare Old French gaide, French guède, from Old High German; or compare French gaude. See also woad.

Noun

goud (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) woad

Etymology 2

Noun

goud (plural gouds)

1. Alternative form of gourde (“Haitian currency”)

Anagrams

• Doug

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?œut]

Etymology 1

From Dutch goud, from Middle Dutch gout, from Old Dutch golt, from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?.

Noun

goud (uncountable)

1. gold

Etymology 2

From Dutch gouden.

Adjective

goud (attributive goue, comparative gouer, superlative goudste)

1. made out of gold
2. golden, gold-coloured

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gout, from Old Dutch golt, from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?t/
• Hyphenation: goud
• Rhymes: -?u?t

Noun

goud n (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) gold

   zwart goud - oil

   zwart goud - vinyl record

   blauw goud - water

2. (heraldry) or, gold

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: goud
• ? Sranan Tongo: gowtu

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian g?d, from Proto-Germanic *g?daz. More at good.

Adjective

goud (comparative beeter, superlative bääst)

1. good

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Inherited or borrowed?”)

Noun

goud n (no plural)

1. gold
2. gold jewelry
3. gold coins
4. riches, treasure

Derived terms

• goudûle

Further reading

• “goud”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d/
• Homophones: god (in accents with the cot-caught merger), gored (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English gaude, gawde (“jest, prank, trick; ornamental bead in a rosary, trinket, bauble”). Compare Middle English gaudy, gaudee, of the same meaning.

Noun

gaud (plural gauds)

1. a cheap showy trinket
   • 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (published 1926)

     Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war.

2. (obsolete) trick; jest; sport
3. (obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice

Translations

Related terms

• gaudy

Verb

gaud (third-person singular simple present gauds, present participle gauding, simple past and past participle gauded)

1. (obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.

Etymology 2

Compare French gaudir (“to rejoice”).

Verb

gaud (third-person singular simple present gauds, present participle gauding, simple past and past participle gauded)

1. To sport or keep festival.
   • 1579, Thomas North, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes

     gauding with his familiars

Anagrams

• Guad.

Ilocano

Noun

gaud

1. paddle; oar

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

gaud

1. paddle; oar