geld
A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnantA female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant.
» She gelded a foal.
Sie kastrierte ein Fohlen. — Yorwba
Она кастрировала жеребёнка. — caponych
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3 sensesA female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant.
Money.
(Northern England, archaic, countable, dialectal, historical, uncountable)A payment.
(archaic, countable, dialectal, historical, uncountable)In particular, (money paid as) a medieval form of land tax.
Examples
3 sentencesShe gelded a foal.
ruОна кастрировала жеребёнка. — caponych
deSie kastrierte ein Fohlen. — Yorwba
Hanukkah gelt is pocket money that it is customary to give to children on Hanukkah.
Хануке-ґелт - це кишенькові гроші, які традиційно дають дітям на Хануку. — deniko
deDas Chanukka-Gelt ist ein Taschengeld, das man traditionell Kindern zu Chanukka schenkt. — mhr
I gelded one.
Origin
From Middle English geld (and reinforced by Medieval Latin geldum), both from Old EnglishFrom Middle English geld (and reinforced by Medieval Latin geldum), both from Old English ġeld, ġield (“payment, tribute”) (which regularly yield yield), 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”) (whence apparently the otherwise irregular hard g in Middle English geld and perhaps also in Medieval Latin geldum, as opposed to the regular continuation yield from Old English). Geld is also written gelt or gild, and as such found in wergild, Danegeld, etc. Doublet of yield.
From Middle English gelden, from Old Norse gelda (“to geld, castrate”), from Proto-Germanic *galdijaną (“to castrate”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to cut”).
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