Geld vs Veld - What's the difference?
geld | veld |
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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The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa.
* 1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 79:
* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 11:
* {{quote-news, 2007, January 14, Caroline Elkins, A Life Exposed, New York Times
, passage=For Holmes, Baartman’s journey as an object of European curiosity and African exploitation began on the veld of South Africa’s Eastern Cape. }}
As nouns the difference between geld and veld
is that geld is money while veld is the open pasture land or grassland of south africa.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.
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veld
English
(wikipedia veld)Alternative forms
* veldtNoun
(en noun)- Pale yellow and greyish brown, the bare veld of late summer lay flat and listless under the drab sky.
- From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veld playing and fighting with the other boys of the village.
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