In decades of living in the US, I have never heard "guilty" used to refer to owing money except in the case where the debt was decided by a court, and then it's obviously due to confusion with criminal trials where losing the case = being guilty. Old English is related closely enough to German that I would expect there to be a similar word in German. What is the word?Įnglish "guilt" comes from the Old English "gylt", meaning crime.
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