gelding

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛldɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English geldyng (“eunuch”), from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”). By surface analysis, geld (“to castrate”) +‎ -ing (diminutive suffix).

Noun

gelding (plural geldings)

1. A castrated male horse.
   • 2003 January 8, Stuart Lavietes, “F. William Free, 74, Ad Man Behind 'Fly Me'”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

2. Any castrated male animal.

Translations

castrated male horse

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 騸馬／骟马 (sin³ maa⁵)

  Mandarin: 騸馬／骟马 (zh) (shànmǎ)

• Czech: valach (cs) m
• Danish: vallak (da) c
• Dutch: ruin (nl) m
• Faroese: geldingur m
• Finnish: ruuna (fi), valakka (fi)
• French: hongre (fr) m
• German: Wallach (de) m
• Hungarian: herélt (hu)
• Irish: gearrán m
• Italian: castrone m
• Japanese: 騸馬 (せんば, senba)
• Latin: cabo m
• Malay: kuda kembiri
• Maori: tāriana poka, hōiho poka
• Mongolian: ᠠᠭᠳᠠ (aɣda), ᠠᠭᠳᠠ
  ᠮᠣᠷᠢ (aɣda mori)
• Navajo: łį́į́ʼ bichoʼ ádinii, łį́į́ʼ bichoʼ haaʼnil
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vallak (no) m

  Nynorsk: vallak m

• Persian: جرده (fa) (jorde)
• Polish: wałach (pl) m
• Portuguese: capão (pt) m
• Russian: ме́рин (ru) m (mérin)
• Scots: staig
• Scottish Gaelic: gearran m
• Slovak: valach m
• Spanish: (caballo) capón m, caballo castrado m
• Swedish: valack (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ме́рин m (méryn)
• Volapük: hojevod (vo), (obsolete) ömjeval
• Welsh: adfarch m

castrated male animal

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 閹割動物／阉割动物 (yāngē dòngwù)

• Finnish: kuohittu eläin
• German: kastriertes Männchen n, verschnittenes Tier n
• Hungarian: herélt (hu)
• Maori: raho poka
• Portuguese: castrado (pt) m
• Russian: кастри́рованное живо́тное n (kastrírovannoje živótnoje), вол (ru) m (vol) (ox), кастра́т (ru) m (kastrát)
• Spanish: capón m
• Volapük: (generic) honim, (mule) homulud, (hinny) hohinud, (cat) hokat, (dog) hodog (vo), (ox) hobub (vo), (zebra) hosebrad

Etymology 2

From geld +‎ -ing.

Verb

gelding

1. present participle and gerund of geld

Anagrams

• Gedling, gingled, ledging, niggled

Icelandic

Etymology

From gelda (“to geld, to castrate”) +‎ -ing (“-ing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcɛltiŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɛltiŋk

Noun

gelding f (genitive singular geldingar, nominative plural geldingar)

1. castration, gelding

Declension

Declension of gelding (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gelding	geldingin	geldingar	geldingarnar
accusative	geldingu	geldinguna	geldingar	geldingarnar
dative	geldingu	geldingunni	geldingum	geldingunum
genitive	geldingar	geldingarinnar	geldinga	geldinganna

Related terms

• gelda (“to geld, to castrate”)
• geldingur (“gelding, wether”)