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Akin to Proto-Slavic *želsti (attested only in Old Church Slavonic жлѣсти (žlěsti) and Old East Slavic желести (želesti)). If not an early borrowing from Germanic, these may be from common Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ-.[1] Old Irish gell (“pledge”) may also continue the same root.[2]

*geldaną[2][3]

  1. to pay
  2. to have/give value

Conjugation of *geldaną (strong class 3)

  1. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*geldan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 173-174
  3. ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*ʒelđanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 130-131