geldingr

Old Norse

Etymology

From gelda (“to castrate”) +‎ -ingr.

Noun

geldingr m

1. wether (castrated ram)

Descendants

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

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “geldingr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive