gelding

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛldɪŋ

From Middle English geldyng (“eunuch”), from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”). By surface analysis, geld (“to castrate”) +‎ -ing (diminutive suffix).

gelding (plural geldings)

1. A castrated male horse.
   • 2003 January 8, Stuart Lavietes, “F. William Free, 74, Ad Man Behind 'Fly Me'”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 7 January 2022:

     Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

2. Any castrated male animal.

From geld + -ing.

gelding

1. present participle and gerund of geld

• Gedling, gingled, ledging, niggled

From gelda (“to geld, to castrate”) +‎ -ing (“-ing”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈcɛltiŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɛltiŋk

gelding f (genitive singular geldingar, nominative plural geldingar)

1. castration, gelding

• gelda (“to geld, to castrate”)
• geldingur (“gelding, wether”)