different between wield vs wieldable

English

Etymology

From Middle English welden, from Old English wieldan (“to control”), from Proto-Germanic *waldijan?.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?ld, IPA^(key): /wi?ld/
• Rhymes: -i?ld
• Homophones: wealed, Weald, weald, wheeled (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Verb

wield (third-person singular simple present wields, present participle wielding, simple past and past participle wielded)

1. (obsolete) To command, rule over; to possess or own.

   • There was never kyng sauff myselff that welded evir such knyghtes.

2. (obsolete) To control, to guide or manage.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:

     With such his chearefull speaches he doth wield / Her mind so well, that to his will she bends […].

3. To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.
4. To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.

Derived terms

• bewield
• wieldsome
• wieldy

Translations

Anagrams

• Wilde, wiled

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian wilde, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz. Cognate with English wild.

Adjective

wield

1. wild

Alternative forms

• wüüld

Scots

Etymology

From Old English wieldan (“to control”), a derivative of wealdan (“to govern”), from Proto-Germanic *waldan?. Cognate with German walten, Swedish vålla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?ld/

Verb

wield

1. To control, to guide or manage.

English

Etymology

wield +? -able

Adjective

wieldable (comparative more wieldable, superlative most wieldable)

1. Capable of being wielded.
   • 1973, Louis A. Brennan, Beginner's guide to archaeology

     Garden shops now carry hoes with this depth of blade, so that all that has to be done is to cut off the handle to a wieldable length.