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)/
Descendants
- English: yelt
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 434, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 434
- “yelte, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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