gelt








verb

  1. a simple past tense and past participle of geld1.

noun Slang.

  1. money.

verb (used with object), geld·ed or gelt, geld·ing.

  1. to castrate (an animal, especially a horse).
  2. to take strength, vitality, or power from; weaken or subdue.

verb

  1. archaic, or dialect a past tense and past participle of geld 1

noun

  1. slang, mainly US cash or funds; money

verb gelds, gelding, gelded or gelt (tr)

  1. to castrate (a horse or other animal)
  2. to deprive of virility or vitality; emasculate; weaken

noun

  1. a tax on land levied in late Anglo-Saxon and Norman England
n.

“money,” 1520s, from German, Dutch gelt “gold, money” (see geld (n.)). In some later uses, from Yiddish.

adj.

past participle of geld (v.); hence, as an adjective, “castrated” (mid-15c.).

n.

“royal tax in medieval England,” Old English gield “payment, tribute,” from Proto-Germanic *geldam “payment” (cf. Middle High German gelt “payment, contribution,” German geld “money,” Old Norse gjald “payment,” Gothic gild “tribute, tax”), from PIE root of yield (v.).

v.

“to castrate,” c.1300, from Old Norse gelda “castrate” from geldr “barren,” from Proto-Germanic *galdu-, from PIE *ghel- “to cut.” Related: Gelded. Cf. Old Norse geldr “yielding no milk, dry,” Old High German galt “barren,” said of a cow.

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