# gild
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɪld/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪld
* Homophones: gilled, guild

### Etymology 1

From Middle English gilden, gulden, from Old English gyldan (“to gild, to cover with a thin layer of gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *gulþijan, from Proto-Germanic *gulþijaną, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”).

#### Verb

gild (third-person singular simple present gilds, present participle gilding, simple past and past participle gilded or gilt)
* (transitive) To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
    Hypernym: gold
** 1888 May, Oscar Wilde, “The Happy Prince”, in The Happy Prince and Other Tales, London: David Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 1:High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.
* (transitive) To adorn.
** c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]:I will make fast the doors, and gild myself With some more ducats, and be with you straight.
* (transitive, cooking) To decorate with a golden surface appearance.
    Hypernym: gold
** 2008, Ivan P. Day, Cooking in Europe, 1650-1850, page 98:Gild the entire outside with beaten egg yolk, and sprinkle it with grated parmesan.
* (transitive) To give a bright or pleasing aspect to.
** 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 28”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:When sparkling stars twire not, thou gild'st the even.
* (transitive) To make appear drunk.

##### Derived terms

* begild
* electrogild
* engild
* gildable
* Gilded Age
* gilded cage
* gilder
* gild the lily
* gild the pill
* overgild
* regild
* ungild

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2
#### Noun

gild (plural gilds)
* Obsolete spelling of guild.
** 1920, H. E. Salter, Munimenta Civitatis Oxonie, volume 71, page xxviii:No trade gild might be started without the consent of the whole body of hanasters, who would insist that the regulations were not harmful to the burgesses as a whole; […]

### See also

* gild on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* DILG, glid

## Gothic
### Romanization

gild
* Romanization of 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳

## Irish
### Etymology

From English guild.

### Noun

gild m (genitive singular gild, nominative plural gildeanna)
* (historical) guild
    Synonym: cuallacht

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
gild
gildeanna
vocative
a ghild
a ghildeanna
genitive
gild
gildeanna
dative
gild
gildeanna
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an gild
na gildeanna
genitive
an ghild
na ngildeanna
dative
leis an ngild don ghild
leis na gildeanna :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gild”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* “guild”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gild”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

## Middle Scots
### Alternative forms

* gyld

### Etymology

Of unknown origin. Possibly from Old Norse galdr (“charm, spell”), from Proto-Germanic *galdraz (“song, singing”). Compare with Ulster Irish goldar (“roar, loud noise”).

### Noun

gild
* noise; clamour [from c. 1500]

### Further reading

* “Gild, Gyld, n.$^2$”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse gildr, from Proto-Germanic *gildiz. Cognates include Icelandic gildur and Scots yauld.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jɪlː/

### Adjective

gild (neuter gildt, definite singular and plural gilde, comparative gildare, indefinite superlative gildast, definite superlative gildaste)
* (also law) valid
    Antonym: ugild
* nice, healthy, rich, capable
* kind, good
* enjoyable
* happy
* proud

#### Derived terms

* gilda (verb)
* allgild
* fullgild
* gildskap
* lovgild
* ovgild
* rettsgild
* ugild

#### Related terms

* gilde n
* gjelda

### References

* “gild” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jild/, [jiɫd]

### Noun

ġild n
* Alternative form of ġield

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

## Old Norse
### Adjective

gild
* strong feminine nominative singular of gildr
* strong neuter nominative plural of gildr
* strong neuter accusative plural of gildr