köken: From Middle High German gëlt, from Old High German gëlt, këlt, from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). The modern consonantism -d instead of expected -t is Central and Low German (compare Middle Low German gelt, -des, from Old Saxon geld); but also Upper German in some dialects through revoicing after -l-.…
köken: Inherited from Middle French argent m, from Old French argent m, from Latin argentum n, according to the TLFi etymological dictionary, a borrowing).
aile: argent blanc, argent de poche, argent sale, blanchiment d'argent, but en argent, en avoir pour son argent, je n'ai pas d'argent, jeter l'argent par les fenêtres, l'argent n'a pas d'odeur, l'argent ne fait pas le bonheur
köken: Cognate with Kazakh теңге (teñge, “piece of money; Kazakhstan's national currency”), Uzbek tanga (“currency in the historical Central Asian states; fish scale”), Uyghur تەڭگە (tengge, “silver coin; ruble; fish scale”), Turkmen teňňe (“monetary unit”). Russian деньга (denʹga, “denga, an old coin”). For Bashkir this is clearly a cultural borrowing from Central Asia: tanka was the name of the…
From Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma, “money, the current coin of a state, custom”), from νομίζω (nomízō, “to hold or own as a custom, usage, to use customarily, practise, to be used to a thing”), hence "to make common use of", from νόμος (nómos, “anything assigned, a usage, custom, law, ordinance”), from νέμω (némō, “to keep, to hold, to watch”).