Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A payment. · In particular, (money paid as) a medieval form of land tax.
To tax geld.
From 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. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian jild (“money”), Saterland Frisian Jield, Jäild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), German Geld (“money”), Old Norse gjald (“payment”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳 (gild, “tribute”). Also related to English yield.
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- Root classification mention*gʰeldʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiongeldenm
- Inherited-form mentionġeldang
- Inherited-form mention*geldgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*geldągem-pro · reward, gift, money
- Derivation mention*gʰeldʰ-ine-pro · to pay
- Cognate mentiongjeldnb · debt
- Cognate mentiongældda · debt
- Cognate mentionjildfrr · money
- Cognate mentionJieldstq
- Cognate mentiongeldnl · money
- Cognate mentionGeldde · money
- Cognate mentiongjaldnon · payment
- Cognate mention𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳got · tribute
- Cognate mentionyielden
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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