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eld

Pronunciation: /ɛld/

The English word “eld” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. One's age, age in years, period of life.
  2. Old age, senility; an old person.
  3. Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.
  4. Former ages, antiquity, olden times.

adjective

  1. Old.

verb

  1. To age, become or grow old.
  2. To delay; linger.
  3. To make old, age.

Etymology

From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”). Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian…

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