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DANISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

gold.

barren, desolate

4 characters1 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

adj/ɡɔl/[ɡ̊ʌlˀ]
  1. barren, desolate

  2. sterile (unable to reproduce)

  3. dry, (of a cow) not producing milk

    En gold ko.
Where this word comes from

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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