gowd

Scots

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡʌud/

Noun

gowd

  1. gold; wealth
    • Robert Burns
      The man's the gowd for a' that.

Adjective

gowd (comparative mair gowd, superlative maist gowd)

  1. gold
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