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gold

Pronunciation: /ɡɔl/

“gold” is a Danish word. Its 3 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. barren, desolate
  2. sterile (unable to reproduce)
  3. dry, (of a cow) not producing milk

Etymology

Probably from or related to Old Norse geldr (“barren, yielding no milk”), from Proto-Germanic *galdaz, *galdijaz (“barren, unfruitful”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout, cry”). See also Swedish gall (“barren”), German galt, gelt (“yielding no milk, unfruitful”), Old Norse gelda (“to castrate”).

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