golden
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Searchable Lemmata: gylden (OE), golden (ME), goldin (OScots), gilden (MdE), golden (MdE).
Alternate Forms: colden, gegylden, gegyldnan, gelden, gilden, gildene, gildenene, goldein, goldene, goldyng, guilden, guildene, gulden, guldene, gyldenne, gyldyn.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(adj.)
Other;
made of gold; having the colour or shine of gold.(ante 900 ? still in current use)
1. þa heo hine ða bihygdelice & geornlice sohte, þa gemette heo semninga under hire hrægle gyldne sigele swiðe deorwyrðe
Biblical/Hagiographic, Historic.
[DOE Bede 4 (24.336.33) ante 900]
2. dyde him of healse hring gyldenne þioden þristhydig, þegne gesealde ... goldfahne helm, beah ond byrnan, het hyne brucan well.
Heroic, Poetic.
[DOE Beo (2809) ante 1025]
7. [230b/b] ... Iacinctus is an herbe wiþ purpre flour ... þe propur colour þer of is þe colour of ayer oþer of heuene. ... [231a/a] ... The vtter syde of þe crowne oþer myter was a cercle of gold aboute þe forheed and þe nolle ... and vpon þe cercle stood golden floures liche to planteyne ... [233b/b] ... Þer is many maner flex; but þe fayrest of alle groweþ in egipte, for þer of is byssus y made, swiþe fair and white as snowe. ... Þe þrede is ysode, ybleight [Tol: bley3t] and yboukid ... for to it be white.
[MED *Trev.Barth. ((Add 27944) 230b/b-233b/b) 1398]
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, Old English gylden, adjectival form with suffix derived from the noun gold (q.v.); the vowel-affection in the first syllable (to gyld-) is regular. This form (OED gilden) persisted through the medieval period, but had largely fallen out of use by the end of the fifteenth century; it was replaced from c.1300 onwards by an analogical formation, golden, which retained the vowel of the base noun. In later centuries gilden is occasionally encountered, particularly where it is mistakenly used as if a past participle of the verb gild (q.v.), the correct psp. of which is gilt (q.v.).
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