gild
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɡɪld/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪld
- Homophones: gilled, guild
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English gilden, gulden, from Old English gyldan (“to gild, to cover with a thin layer of gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *gulþijan, from Proto-Germanic *gulþijaną, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”).
Verb
[edit]gild (third-person singular simple present gilds, present participle gilding, simple past and past participle gilded or gilt)
- (transitive) To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
- Hypernym: gold
- 1888 May, Oscar Wilde, “The Happy Prince”, in The Happy Prince and Other Tales, London: David Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 1:
- High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.
- (transitive) To adorn.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]:
- I will make fast the doors, and gild myself
With some more ducats, and be with you straight.
- (transitive, cooking) To decorate with a golden surface appearance.
- Hypernym: gold
- 2008, Ivan P. Day, Cooking in Europe, 1650-1850, page 98:
- Gild the entire outside with beaten egg yolk, and sprinkle it with grated parmesan.
- (transitive) To give a bright or pleasing aspect to.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 28”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- When sparkling stars twire not, thou gild'st the even.
- (transitive) To make appear drunk.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to cover with a thin layer of gold
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to adorn
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to make appear drunk
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Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]gild (plural gilds)
- Obsolete spelling of guild.
- 1920, H. E. Salter, Munimenta Civitatis Oxonie, volume 71, page xxviii:
- No trade gild might be started without the consent of the whole body of hanasters, who would insist that the regulations were not harmful to the burgesses as a whole; […]
See also
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Anagrams
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[edit]Romanization
[edit]gild
- Romanization of 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]gild m (genitive singular gild, nominative plural gildeanna)
- (historical) guild
- Synonym: cuallacht
Declension
[edit]Declension of gild
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| gild | ghild | ngild |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gild”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “guild”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gild”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse gildr, from Proto-Germanic *gildiz. Cognates include Icelandic gildur and Scots yauld.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gild (neuter gildt, definite singular and plural gilde, comparative gildare, indefinite superlative gildast, definite superlative gildaste)
Derived terms
[edit]- gilda (verb)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “gild” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ġild n
- Alternative form of ġield
Declension
[edit]Declension of ġild (strong a-stem)
Old Norse
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gild
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