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Is geld a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word geld is a Scrabble US word. The word geld is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is geld a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word geld is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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4-letter words (2 found)

GELD,GLED,

3-letter words (7 found)

DEG,DEL,ELD,GED,GEL,LED,LEG,

2-letter words (3 found)

DE,ED,EL,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 13 words from geld according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of geld

geld egld gled lged elgd legd gedl egdl gdel dgel edgl degl glde lgde gdle dgle ldge dlge eldg ledg edlg delg ldeg dleg

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word geld. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in geld.

Definitions and meaning of geld

geld

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɛld/
  • Rhymes: -ɛld

Etymology 1

From Middle English geld and reinforced by Medieval Latin geldum, both from Old English geld, ġield (“payment, tribute”), 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”). Geld is also written gelt or gild, and as such found in wergild, Danegeld, etc.

Noun

geld (countable and uncountable, plural gelds)

  1. (chiefly archaic, dialectal or historical) Money.
    1. (Northern England) A payment.
    2. (historical) In particular, (money paid as) a medieval form of land tax.

Verb

geld (third-person singular simple present gelds, present participle gelding, simple past and past participle gelded)

  1. (historical) To tax geld.
Related terms
  • Danegeld
  • hidegeld
  • wharfgeld
  • sandgeld
  • wergeld
  • yield
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English gelden, from Old Norse gelda (“to geld, castrate”), from Proto-Germanic *galdijaną (“to castrate”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to cut”).

Cognate with Old Norse geldr (“yielding no milk, dry”), German galt, gelt (“not giving milk, barren”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌰 (gilþa, “sickle”). Compare the archaic German Gelze (“castrated swine”) and gelzen (“to castrate”), Danish galt (“castrated boar”) (from Old Norse gǫltr (“boar, hog”), cognate with English gilt and gilde (“to geld”). "gelding" derives from Old Norse geldingr.

Verb

geld (third-person singular simple present gelds, present participle gelding, simple past and past participle gelded or gelt)

  1. (transitive) To castrate a male (usually an animal).
  2. (transitive, figurative) To deprive of anything essential; to weaken.
Translations

Noun

geld (plural gelds)

  1. A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant.

References

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch geld (“money”), from Middle Dutch gelt, from Old Dutch geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą, cognate with German Geld (“money”), Old Norse gjald (“payment”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳 (gild, “tribute”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /χɛlt/

Noun

geld (plural gelde)

  1. (uncountable) money
  2. (uncountable) cash, currency
    Synonym: kontant
  3. tariff, compensation

Derived terms

  • geldboete
  • geldeenheid
  • geldstuk
  • papgeld
  • sakgeld
  • spaargeld

Descendants

  • → Sotho: tjhelete
  • → Venda: tshelede

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣɛlt/, (Northern Dutch) [xɛlt], (Southern Dutch) [ɣɛlt]
  • Hyphenation: geld
  • Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gelt, gheld, ghelt, from Old Dutch geld, from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).

Noun

geld n (plural gelden)

  1. money
    Synonyms: doekoe, poen
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: geld
    • → Sotho: tjhelete
    • → Venda: tshelede
  • Jersey Dutch: xjäält, xält
  • Negerhollands: geld, gelt
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: galti

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch gelde, probably borrowed from Old Norse geldr (“barren, yielding no milk”), from Proto-Germanic *galdaz, *galdijaz (“barren, unfruitful”). The ultimate origin is uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to cut”), or from *gʰel- (“to shout, cry”).

Adjective

geld (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, of female animals) not pregnant
    Antonym: drachtig
  2. (obsolete, of fish) male
Inflection
Alternative forms
  • gelt (obsolete)
Descendants
  • → West Frisian: geld

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

geld

  1. inflection of gelden:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

References

Icelandic

Verb

geld

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gjalda

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jeld/, [jeɫd]

Noun

ġeld n

  1. Alternative form of ġield

Declension

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡɛl(d)]

Adjective

geld (comparative mair geld, superlative maist geld)

  1. Alternative form of yeld

Source: wiktionary.org