gjalda
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== Faroese ==
=== Etymology ===
From Old Norse gjalda, from Proto-Germanic *geldaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Cognates include English yield, German gelten, Dutch gelden, Swedish gälla, Norwegian gjelde, Icelandic gjalda and Danish gælde.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃalta]
=== Verb ===
gjalda (third person singular past indicative galt, third person plural past indicative guldu, supine goldið)
to pay
==== Usage notes ====
Not to be mixed with galda or gelda which are partially homophonic with this verb.
==== Conjugation ====
== Icelandic ==
=== Etymology ===
From Old Norse gjalda, from Proto-Germanic *geldaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Cognates include English yield, German gelten, Dutch gelden, Swedish gälla, Norwegian gjelde, Faroese gjalda and Danish gælde.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈcalta]
Rhymes: -alta
=== Verb ===
gjalda (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative galt, third-person plural past indicative guldu, supine goldið)
to pay
==== Conjugation ====
==== Derived terms ====
endurgjalda
== Old Norse ==
=== Etymology ===
From Proto-Germanic *geldaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).
=== Verb ===
gjalda (singular past indicative galt, plural past indicative guldu, past participle goldinn)
(ditransitive) to repay, return
gjalda gjǫf við gjǫf ― to pay back gift for gift
(figurative) to give
to pay for, suffer on account [with genitive]
==== Conjugation ====
==== Related terms ====
gildi
gildr
gjald (“payment”)
==== Descendants ====
Icelandic: gjalda
Faroese: gjalda
Norwegian Nynorsk: gjelda; (dialectal) galda, gjedla, gjelja
Norwegian Bokmål: gjelde
Old Swedish: giælda, gialda, giælla, gællaSwedish: gälla, gälda
Old Danish: gialdæ
Danish: gælde
=== Further reading ===
Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “gjalda”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive