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yelt

/jɛlt/

yelt noun: a young sow who has not yet had a litter.

Noun

yelt (plural yelts)

  1. A young sow who has not yet had a litter.

Forms of yelt

pluralyelts

Origin of yelt

Inherited from Middle English yelte, from Old English ġilte, *ġielte, from Proto-West Germanic *galtijā, extension of Proto-Germanic *galtô, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-. Probably cognate to the equivelant English gilt, from Middle English gilt, gylt, from Old Norse gyltr; compare geld (“castrate”), Old Norse galtr, gǫltr (“castrated boar, hog”), Danish galt, Icelandic göltur, Norwegian Bokmål galt, Swedish galt (“boar, hog”); as well as English gelde, Old English gelde, Scots yelt, yell (“sterile”), ceasing to give milk, regional English yell (“dry (of cow)”), Old Norse geldr (“infertile, regarding cow”), Old Danish gold, Old Swedish galder (“infertile, fruitless”).

Questions about yelt

What does yelt mean?
Yelt means a young sow who has not yet had a litter.
What part of speech is yelt?
Yelt is a noun.
How do you pronounce yelt?
Yelt is pronounced /jɛlt/.
What is the plural of yelt?
The plural of yelt is yelts.

Words near yelt in the dictionary

  1. yelpish
  2. yelplike
  3. yelps
  4. yelpt
  5. yelpy
  6. yelt
  7. Yelta
  8. yelting
  9. yeltings
  10. Yelton
  11. Yeltons

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