yelt – English noun declension

Noun: yelt

Singular	yelt
Plural	yelts

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like yelt

soldier's woundwort, Nicosian, whopper, greypate, tactile sign language, chronotrope, Rosie Lee, dissentient, photoinactivator, sulphonediimine, coastal waterfall, residuary devise, bituminization, nitrosonaphthol, smṛiti, geosphere, backscreen, mensuralist, flocculate, flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Inherited from Middle English yelte, from Old English ġilte, *ġielte, from Proto-West Germanic *galtijā, extension of Proto-Germanic *galtô, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-.
2. Probably cognate to the equivelant English gilt, from Middle English gilt, gylt, from Old Norse gyltr; compare geld (“castrate”), Old Norse galtr, gǫltr (“castrated boar, hog”), Danish galt, Icelandic göltur, Norwegian Bokmål galt, Swedish galt (“boar, hog”); as well as English gelde, Old English gelde, Scots yelt, yell (“sterile”), ceasing to give milk, regional English yell (“dry (of cow)”), Old Norse geldr (“infertile, regarding cow”), Old Danish gold, Old Swedish galder (“infertile, fruitless”). See: Middle English Nouns 'yelte', Middle English Nouns 'yelte', Old English Nouns 'ġilte', English Nouns 'gilt', Middle English Nouns 'gilt', Old Norse Nouns 'gyltr', Old Norse Nouns 'galtr', Danish Nouns 'galt', Icelandic Nouns 'göltur', Swedish Nouns 'galt', Old English Nouns 'gelde', English Nouns 'yell', Old Norse Nouns 'geldr'.