shild

== English == === Noun === shild (plural shildren) (rare, possibly obsolete) Alternative form of child representing German- or French-accented speech. 2001, J. Douglas Canfield, Maja-Lisa von Sneidern, The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, Broadview Press (→ISBN), page 960, quoting some edition of John Lacy's The Old Troop: Or, Monsieur Raggou (originally from 1672): RAGGOU. For oughta me see, dis shild be your shild. CAPTAIN. How prove you that, sir? RAGGOU. Begar, she say de shild belong to de troop, and you say de troop belong to you; derefore, de shild is your shild, begar. […] RAGGOU. […] Madam Dol, before my Capitain, if your shild be born wid never a shart, den it by my shild, for me have had no shart dis forty week. === Anagrams === Hilds == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === From Old English sċyld (“guilt, sin, crime, offence, fault, debt, due, obligation, liability”). ==== Alternative forms ==== schuld, scyld, sculd, scylde ==== Noun ==== shild (plural shilde or shilden) debt; fault; guilt. ===== Derived terms ===== shildy === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== shild alternative form of scheld