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yelt

/jɛlt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
yelt
IPA
/jɛlt/
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A young sow who has not yet had a litter.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English yelte, from Old English ġilte, *ġielte, from Proto-West Germanic *galtijā, extension of Proto-Germanic *galtô, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-. Probably cognate to the equivelant English gilt, from Middle English gilt, gylt, from Old Norse gyltr; compare geld (“castrate”), Old Norse galtr, gǫltr (“castrated boar, hog”), Danish galt, Icelandic göltur, Norwegian Bokmål galt, Swedish galt (“boar, hog”); as well as English gelde, Old English gelde, Scots yelt, yell (“sterile”), ceasing to give milk, regional English yell (“dry (of cow)”), Old Norse geldr (“infertile, regarding cow”), Old Danish gold, Old Swedish galder (“infertile, fruitless”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: yelte, ġilte, *galtijā, *galtô, *gʰel-

Inflected Forms

yelts (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce yelt?
The recorded pronunciation is /jɛlt/.
What does yelt mean?
A young sow who has not yet had a litter.
Where does yelt come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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