yelte

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English ġilte, *ġielte, from Proto-West Germanic *galtijā, from *galtō + *-jā, from Proto-Germanic *galtô (whence Old Norse gylta, gyltr (young sow)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (to cut).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjɛlt(ə)/

Noun

yelte

  1. (hapax) young sow

Descendants

  • English: yelt

References

  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 434, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 434
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