geldyng
Middle English
Alternative forms
- geldynge, geldyn, gelding, gildyng
Etymology
From Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”). Equivalent to gelden + -ing.
Noun
geldyng (plural geldyngs)
- a gelded horse, gelding
- a gelded man (eunuch)
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[1], published c. 1410, Dedis of Apoſtlis 8:38, page 96v, column 2, line 19; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- & thei wenten doun bothe into the water, Philip & the geldyng, & Philip baptiside hym.
- and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. (KJV)
- a castrated boar, barrow
