Gelt

[gelt] /gɛlt/

verb
1.
a simple past tense and past participle of 1 .
[gelt] /gɛlt/
noun, Slang.
1.
.
[geld] /gɛld/
verb (used with object), gelded or gelt, gelding.
1.
to castrate (an animal, especially a horse).
2.
to take strength, vitality, or power from; weaken or subdue.
/ɡɛlt/
verb
1.
(archaic or dialect) a past tense and past participle of geld1
/ɡɛlt/
noun
1.
(slang, mainly US) cash or funds; money
/ɡɛld/
verb (transitive) gelds, gelding, gelded, gelt
1.
to castrate (a horse or other animal)
2.
to deprive of virility or vitality; emasculate; weaken
/ɡɛld/
noun
1.
a tax on land levied in late Anglo-Saxon and Norman England
n.

“money,” 1520s, from German, Dutch gelt “gold, money” (see geld (n.)). In some later uses, from Yiddish.
adj.

past participle of geld (v.); hence, as an adjective, “castrated” (mid-15c.).
n.

“royal tax in medieval England,” Old English gield “payment, tribute,” from Proto-Germanic *geldam “payment” (cf. Middle High German gelt “payment, contribution,” German geld “money,” Old Norse gjald “payment,” Gothic gild “tribute, tax”), from PIE root of yield (v.).
v.

“to castrate,” c.1300, from Old Norse gelda “castrate” from geldr “barren,” from Proto-Germanic *galdu-, from PIE *ghel- “to cut.” Related: Gelded. Cf. Old Norse geldr “yielding no milk, dry,” Old High German galt “barren,” said of a cow.

noun

Money: To let you guys get away with the gelt?

[1529+; fr German and Yiddish, literally ”gold”]