Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to geld
Participle: gelded
Gerund: gelding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | geld |
| you | geld |
| he;she;it | gelds |
| we | geld |
| you | geld |
| they | geld |
Perfect
| I | have gelded |
| you | have gelded |
| he;she;it | has gelded |
| we | have gelded |
| you | have gelded |
| they | have gelded |
Past
| I | gelded |
| you | gelded |
| he;she;it | gelded |
| we | gelded |
| you | gelded |
| they | gelded |
Pluperfect
| I | had gelded |
| you | had gelded |
| he;she;it | had gelded |
| we | had gelded |
| you | had gelded |
| they | had gelded |
Future
| I | will geld |
| you | will geld |
| he;she;it | will geld |
| we | will geld |
| you | will geld |
| they | will geld |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gelded |
| you | will have gelded |
| he;she;it | will have gelded |
| we | will have gelded |
| you | will have gelded |
| they | will have gelded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | geld |
| you | geld |
| he;she;it | geld |
| we | geld |
| you | geld |
| they | geld |
Perfect
| I | have gelded |
| you | have gelded |
| he;she;it | have gelded |
| we | have gelded |
| you | have gelded |
| they | have gelded |
Imperfect
| I | gelded |
| you | gelded |
| he;she;it | gelded |
| we | gelded |
| you | gelded |
| they | gelded |
Pluperfect
| I | had gelded |
| you | had gelded |
| he;she;it | had gelded |
| we | had gelded |
| you | had gelded |
| they | had gelded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would geld |
| you | would geld |
| he;she;it | would geld |
| we | would geld |
| you | would geld |
| they | would geld |
Perfect
| I | would have gelded |
| you | would have gelded |
| he;she;it | would have gelded |
| we | would have gelded |
| you | would have gelded |
| they | would have gelded |
Imperative
| you | geld |
| we | Let's geld |
| you | geld |
Verbs conjugated like 'geld'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'geld'
eld,
gel,
gelt,
gild,
gold,
meld,
teld,
weld,
bald,
bead,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 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.
2. Cognates
3. 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. See: English '
yield'.
Sample Sentences
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"Poor old Topaz," said Mrs Flanders, as he stretched himself out in the sun, and she smiled, thinking how she had had him gelded, and how she did not like red hair in men. [1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, pages 16–17:]
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Camphor if smell'd
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A man will geld. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 213:]