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eld

UK/ɛld/ uncommon archaic obsolete rare

noun

1.

a late time of life

  • “old age is not for sissies”
  • “he”
  • “;”
  • “t slowed him down at all”
  • “a beard white with eld”
  • “on the brink of geezerhood”
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2.

a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises

  • “she was now of school age”
  • “tall for his eld”
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Origin

From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”). Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), Old English alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old.

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