gield

== Old English == === Alternative forms === ġild, ġyld, ġeld === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *geldą. Cognate with Old Frisian jeld, Old Saxon geld, Old High German gelt, Old Norse gjald, and Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳 (gild). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ji͜yld/, [ji͜yɫd] Rhymes: -i͜yld === Noun === ġield n payment, pay tax tribute cost, loss guild pagan god, idol worship, especially to an idol or pagan god sacrifice (religious offering) ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: ȝeld English: yield Scots: ȝeld, ȝeild → Medieval Latin: geldum, gildum === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ġild”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.