Talk:gelt

It looks like it came to English directly from German rather than thru yiddesh:

Gelt (1) - “money,” 1520s, from Ger., Du. gelt “gold, money” (see geld (n.)). In some later uses, from Yiddish.

AnWulf ... Ferþu Hal! 11:57, 27 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Isn't Yiddish German though? It is a dialect of High German. Leasnam 22:03, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Thieves' cant
I have place the thieves' cant term under Etymology 5, from Yiddish, because one of its derivatives,, appears to definitely be Yiddish in origin. Many sources, however, state that it is from German and so should be under Etymology 4. I have not found anything that really settles the matter. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 13:04, 29 March 2017 (UTC)