alt. pt. & pp. of geld
gelt
geltSlang money
Origin of gelt
Yiddish geld from German (a late-19th-c. borrowing): origin, originally (16th circa ) from source German or Dutch geld, but fell out of use except dialectally: compare geldWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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gelt
noun
SlangMoney.
Origin of gelt
Yiddish from Middle High German geld from Old High German gelt recompenseverb
ArchaicA past tense and a past participle of geld1
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Origin
From Irish geilt.
Origin
Variation of gilt.
Verb
- Simple past and past participle of geld
Origin
From Middle English, from gelden (“to geld, castrate”). More at geld.
Origin
From Middle High German gelt (Modern German Geld), from Old High German gelt (“payment, money”), from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gheldh- (“to pay”). Reinforced by Yiddish געלט (gelt). Cognate with native geld, Dutch geld (“money”), Danish gjæld (“debt”), Swedish gäld (“debt”).
Noun
(usually uncountable, plural gelts)
Origin
From Yiddish געלט (gelt). See above for more.
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