Etymology

gilden

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Today it means: Golden; made of gold. Full definition →

Middle English gilden ← Old English gylden ← Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn
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gilden · adjective1

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*gulþīnaz“golden”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*gulþīn
  3. Old English · inherited fromgylden
  4. Middle English · inherited fromgilden
  5. English todaygilden

From Middle English gilden, gelden, gulden, from Old English gylden, from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden”), from *gulþą (“gold”), equivalent to gold + -en. Cognate with Dutch gulden, German gülden, Swedish gyllen.

gilden · verb2

From gild + -en.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishgilden all →

gildergild

Old Englishgylden all →

goldenGildon

Proto-West Germanic*gulþīn all →

golden

Proto-Germanic*gulþīnaz all →

golden

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.