Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To age, become or grow old. · To delay; linger. · To make old, age.
noun
One's age, age in years, period of life. · Old age, senility; an old person. · Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time. · Former ages, antiquity, olden times.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryOld.
From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”). Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), Old English alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*h₂el-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentioneldeenm
- Inherited-form mentionielduang
- Inherited-form mention*aldīgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*alþį̄gem-pro
- Derivation mention*h₂eltósine-pro
- Cognate mentioneildsco
- Cognate mentionjeldefrr
- Cognate mentionÄltede
- Cognate mentionældeda
- Cognate mentionelliis
- Cognate mention𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃got
- Cognate mentionalanang
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