geldingr

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From gelda (“to castrate”) +‎ -ingr.

Noun edit

geldingr m

wether (castrated ram)

Descendants edit

Descendants

Middle Danish: gelding
- Danish: gilding c
→ Middle English: geldyng, geldynge, geldyn, gelding, gildyng
- English: gelding
- Scots: gelding
Faroese: geldingur m
Icelandic: geldingur m
Norwegian Nynorsk: gjelding m
Old Swedish: gældinger
- Swedish: gälling c

References edit

“geldingr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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