Etymology

yolden

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Middle English yolden ← Old English golden ← Proto-Germanic *guldanaz
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*geldaną“to yield, pay”
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*guldanaz
  3. Old English · inherited fromgolden
  4. Middle English · inherited fromyolden“yielded”
  5. English todayyolden

From Middle English yolden (“yielded”), from Old English golden, ġegolden (“yielded”), from Proto-Germanic *guldanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to yield, pay”). Cognate with Dutch gegolden, German gegolten, Icelandic goldinn.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*geldaną all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.