different between wald vs waid

English

Alternative forms

• wauld (Scotland)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??ld/

Etymology 1

From Middle English walden, from Old English wealdan (“to rule, control, determine, direct, command, govern, possess, wield, exercise, cause, bring about”), from Proto-West Germanic *waldan, from Proto-Germanic *waldan? (“to reign”), from Proto-Indo-European *wald?- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”).

Verb

wald (third-person singular simple present walds, present participle walding, simple past and past participle walded)

1. (Britain dialectal, transitive, intransitive) To govern; inherit.

Etymology 2

From Middle English wald, iwald, from Old English ?eweald (“control”), from Proto-Germanic *wald? (“power”), from Proto-Indo-European *wald?- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”). Cognate with German Gewalt (“force, power, control, violence”), Swedish våld (“force, violence”).

Noun

wald (plural walds)

1. (Britain dialectal) Power; strength.
2. (Britain dialectal) Command; control; possession.

Related terms

• wield

Etymology 3

From Middle English wald, from Old English weald (“high land covered with wood, woods, forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old High German wald (German Wald) and Old Norse v?llr (Faroese vøllur, Norwegian voll, Icelandic völlur).

Noun

wald (plural walds)

1. Forest; woods.

References

Anagrams

• Lawd, W.D. La., awdl

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wæld, wold, wolde, wald, walde, weld, welde

Etymology

From Old English weald (“high land covered with wood, woods, forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz.

Noun

wald (plural walds or walden)

1. wood (wooded area), forest
   • c. 1225, St. Margaret of Antioch:

Descendants

• English: wold, weald, wald, weld
• Scots: wald

References

• “w?ld, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Danish

Alternative forms

• wold

Etymology

From Old Norse vald, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz.

Noun

wald

1. force, violence

Descendants

• Danish: vold

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old English weald, Old Norse v?llr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?wald]

Noun

wald m

1. forest

Descendants

• Middle High German: walt
  • Alemannic German: Wald

    Swabian: Wald

  • Bavarian: Woid, Woold

    Cimbrian: balt

    Mòcheno: bòlt

  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Wald

    Luxembourgish: Wal

  • German: Wald
  • Rhine Franconian: Wald, Wall

    Frankfurterisch: [valt]

  • Yiddish: ??????? (vald)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old English weald, Old Norse v?llr.

Noun

wald m

1. forest

Descendants

• Middle Low German: wôlt, wôld
  • Dutch Low Saxon: woold, woud
  • German Low German: Woolt, Woold, Wold
    • Plautdietsch: Woolt

English

Etymology

For weighed.

Adjective

waid (comparative more waid, superlative most waid)

1. (obsolete) Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.

Anagrams

• DWAI, wadi