Geld vs Hidate - What's the difference?
geld | hidate |
Money; notably:
# A tribute
# A compensation, notably a financial one
# A ransom.
# A medieval form of Land Tax
To castrate a male (usually an animal).
* 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 16-17
English terms with multiple etymologies
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(historical) To divide (a region, such as a shire or hundred) into hides.
* 1971 , C. W. Atkin, "Herefordshire", chapter 2 of Henry Clifford Darby and I. B. Terrett (editors), The Domesday Geography of Midland England , Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-08078-1,
(historical) To assess the geld of (a place, such as a manor or borough) in terms of hides.
* 1920 January, E. B. Demarest, “The Firma Unius Noctis” in, The English Historical Review , volume 35,
* 1987 , Wilfred Lewis Warren, The Governance of Norman and Angevin England, 1086–1272 , Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-1307-8,
Hidate is a synonym of geld.
As verbs the difference between geld and hidate
is that geld is to castrate a male (usually an animal) while hidate is to divide (a region, such as a shire or hundred) into hides.As a noun geld
is money; notably.geld
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m) and is also written (m) or (m), and as such found in (m), (m), etc. Probably reinforced by (m) (which see).Noun
(en noun)Verb
- ''"Poor old Topaz," said Mrs Flanders, as he stretched himself out in the sun, and she smiled, thinking how she had had him gelded , and how she did not like red hair in men.
References
hidate
English
Verb
(hidat)page 57:
- In general, the newly-won districts were reckoned in carucates, while the older English territory was hidated .
page 82:
- the well-known habit of beneficially hidating land, that is of arbitrarily estimating the number of hides on which it should pay Danegeld without regard for the number of hides there.
page 27:
- Some of the king's manors were not hidated', and some were ' hidated but did not geld.