noun
Meaning 1
A young sow who has not yet had a litter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
yelt
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/jɛlt/
History
Etymology
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”).