galder

The story

1. Old Norse · borrowed fromgaldr
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*galdraz“song, incantation, spell”
3. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*galdr
4. Old English · derived fromgaldor
5. Middle English · learned borrowing fromgalder
6. English todaygalder

Learned borrowing from Middle English galder, from Old English galdor, from Proto-West Germanic *galdr, from Proto-Germanic *galdraz (“song, incantation, spell”), through garnered interest via Old Norse galdr, equivelant to gale + -der, or yell + -der, deriving from a sense of "magical chanting".

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