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gold

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
gold, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§7; §43; §106; §276; §303; §315; §343; §562;
Gold
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  • Ðæs landes gold ys golda sélost

    the gold of that land is the best of all gold,

      Gen. 2, 12: Cd. 12; Th. 14, 14, 29; Gen. 226.

  • Abram wæs swíðe welig on golde

    Abram was very rich in gold.

      Gen. 13, 6.

  • Cnihtas cúþ gedydon ðæt hie him ðæt gold to gode noldon habban

    the youths made known that they would not have that gold [the golden image] as their god,

      Cd. 182; Th. 228, 4; Dan. 197: 183; Th. 229, 9; Dan. 216.

  • Reád gold

    aurum obrizum,

      Ælfc. Gl. 58; Som. 67, 110; Wrt. Voc. 38, 33.

  • Ealle ðás goldsmiþas secgaþ ðæt hí nǽfre ǽr swá clǽne gold ne swá reád ne gesáwon

    all these goldsmiths say that they never before saw such pure and such red gold,

      Homl. Th. i. 64, 9.

  • Eall mid reádum golde his cynestól geworhte

    he wrought his throne all with red gold,

      H. R. 101, 2.

  • Hundtwelftig mancæs reádes goldes

    a hundred and twenty mancuses of red gold,

      Th. Chart. 232, 10: 375, 28: Bt. Met. Fox 19, 11; Met. 19, 6: Cd. 109; Th. 145, 11; Gen. 2404.

  • Wunden gold twisted gold, 91; Th. 116, 4; Gen. 1931: Beo. Th. 2391; B. 1193. Other epithets applied to gold are æpled, beorht, fæted, fætt, hyrsted, scír, smǽte. Geared gumum gold brittade

    Jared dispensed gold to men,

      Cd. 59: Th. 72, 4; Gen. 1181.

  • Goldes brytta

    a dispenser of gold,

      137; Th. 173, 26; Gen. 2867.
Etymology
[Goth. gulth: O. Sax. O. Frs. O. Ger. gold: Icel. gull.]
Derived forms
DER. cyne-, fæt-, heáfod-gold.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gold.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/17348.

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