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eld

See also: -eld, 'eld, and éld.

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”).

Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), Old English alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old.

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Noun

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eld (uncountable)

  1. (rare or dialectal) One's age, age in years, period of life.
    • 1868, John Eadie, A Biblical Cyclopædia:
      The experience of many years gave old men peculiar qualification for various offices; and elders, or men of a ripe or advanced eld or age, were variously employed under the Mosaic law.
    • 1913, Paulist Fathers, Catholic World:
      Promptly appeared a paragon, aged twenty-five or thereabouts, and exhibiting all the steadiness and serenity of advanced eld.
  2. (archaic or poetic) Old age, senility; an old person.
    Synonyms: elderliness; see also Thesaurus:old age, Thesaurus:old person
    • 1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Threnody”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 245:
      Taught he not thee—the man of eld, / Whose eyes within his eyes beheld / Heaven's numerous hierarchy span / The mystic gulf from God to man?
    • 1904, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Sun's Shame, verse 2, lines 1–3:
      As some true chief of men, bowed down with stress
      Of life's disastrous eld, on blossoming youth
      May gaze, and murmur with self-pity and ruth […]
    • 1912, Herbert Van Allen Ferguson, Rhymes of Eld:
      The withered limbs of eld, the thin, gray hair […]
    • 1912, Arthur S[anders], transl. Way, Medea, Heinemann, translation of Medea by Euripides, published 1946, page 329:
      the alien wife / No crown of honour was as eld drew on.
  3. (archaic or poetic) Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:eon
  4. (archaic or poetic) Former ages, antiquity, olden times.
    Synonyms: days of yore; see also Thesaurus:the past
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 38:
      Once adown the dewy way a youthful cavalier spurred with a maiden mounted behind him, swiftly passing out of sight, recalling to the imagination some romance of eld, when the damosel fled with her lover.

Adjective

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eld (comparative elder, superlative eldest)

  1. (obsolete) Old.

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Verb

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eld (third-person singular simple present elds, present participle elding, simple past and past participle elded)

  1. (intransitive, archaic, poetic or dialectal) To age, become or grow old.
  2. (intransitive, archaic or poetic) To delay; linger.
  3. (transitive, archaic or poetic) To make old, age.

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  • 1906, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, "eld".

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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eld m (definite singular elden, indefinite plural elder, definite plural eldene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by ild

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eld

  1. imperative of elde

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse eldr.

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eld m (definite singular elden, uncountable)

  1. fire
    Mange kulturar har mytar om korleis dei vart herre over elden.
    Many cultures have myths about how they mastered fire.
  2. fire (firing bullets or other projectiles)
    Fienden opna eld.
    The enemy opened fire.

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Eld is mainly used about the abstract concept of fire. The accidental occurrence of fire, such as a fire in a building, is brann.

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Old English

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Noun

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eld f

  1. Alternative form of ieldu

Old Norse

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eld

  1. accusative singular of eldr

Old Saxon

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *ailid.

Noun

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ēld m

  1. fire

Declension

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Declension of ēld (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative ēld ēldos
accusative ēld ēldos
genitive ēldes ēldō
dative ēlde ēldum
instrumental — —


Swedish

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eld

Etymology

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From Old Swedish elder, from Old Norse eldr, from Proto-Germanic *ailidaz.

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eld c

  1. (uncountable) fire (continued chemical exothermic reaction where a gaseous material reacts, and which creates enough heat to evaporate more combustible material)
    • 1999, Ken Ring, Jojje Wadenius (lyrics and music), “Eld och djupa vatten”, in Vägen tillbaka‎[1]:
      Men, ska jag säga: Akta dig för eld och djupa vatten. Men, ska jag säga: Spring aldrig, aldrig bort från mig.
      But, I will [shall] say: Beware of fire and deep waters. But, I will say: Never ever run away from me.
  2. a fire (something set up to burn, like a campfire or bonfire)
    göra upp eld
    make a fire
  3. (uncountable, alchemy) fire (one of the classical, or basic, elements)
  4. (uncountable) fire (in-flight projectiles or the like from a weapon)
    kanoneld
    cannon fire
    lasereld
    laser fire
    Ge eld!
    Fire! [Give fire!]
    eldgivning
    firing [fire-giving]

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Declension of eld
nominative genitive
singular indefinite eld elds
definite elden eldens
plural indefinite eldar eldars
definite eldarna eldarnas

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