gelt

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A lunatic.

Etymology 2
Variation of.

Noun

 * 1)  Gilding; gilt.

Etymology 3
See.

Noun

 * 1) A gelding.

Etymology 4
In the basic sense of "money", attested since the early 16th century,  initially from (an Early New High German continuation of)  (modern 🇨🇬), from,   or in some cases from (an Early Modern Dutch continuation of). Later, and in the Jewish-related senses, from. The German, Dutch and Yiddish words are all from. Doublet of native words.

Noun

 * 1)  Money.
 * 2) * 1591 (1685), Henry Wotton, in Reliquiae Wottonianae, 616:
 * It amounts to not above 12000 Fr. Rhenish, yearly, in bare gelt.
 * 1) * 1816, Egbert Benson, in a memoir read before the New York Historical Society [in 1816], quoted in History of the School of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church (1883), page 22:
 * I saw him at the house of my parents; I in my earliest youth, he approaching to fourscore. He was on his way to collect the Dominie's gelt; for the Dutch always took care the stipend to the minister should be competent, that so he never might be straitened 'to desire a gift.'
 * 1) * 1948, William Burroughs, letter, 5 Jun 1948:
 * Have bought some farm land in Rio Grande Valley which should bring in a sizeable bundle of gelts come cotton picking time.
 * 1) Tribute; tax.
 * 2)  Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
 * 3)  Chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah and often used for games of dreidel.
 * 1) Tribute; tax.
 * 2)  Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
 * 3)  Chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah and often used for games of dreidel.
 * 1)  Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
 * 2)  Chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah and often used for games of dreidel.

Etymology
Back-formation from.

Noun

 * 1) barking