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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

From the Robert A. Heinlein story Waldo, published in Astounding in 1940, derived from the name of the eponymous protagonist, Waldo F. Jones, who invented remote manipulators to overcome his own myasthenia gravis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w??ld??/

Noun

waldo (plural waldos or waldoes)

1. A remote manipulation system in which a slave device mimics the motions of a master device manipulated directly by the operator.

Translations

Anagrams

• woald