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wold
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English wald, wold, from (Anglian) Old English wald (compare weald), from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(?)-t-.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /w??ld/
- (General American) enPR: w?ld, IPA(key): /wo?ld/
- Rhymes: -??ld
Noun
wold (plural wolds)
- (archaic, regional) An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene 4,[1]
- Saint Withold footed thrice the ’old;
- He met the nightmare, and her nine fold;
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Volume I, Chapter 8,[2]
- “ […] I came with my cousin, Frank Osbaldistone, there, and I must show him the way back again to the Hall, or he’ll lose himself in the wolds.”
- 1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, stanza 69,[3]
- And therefore did he take a trusty band
- To traverse Acarnania forest wide,
- In war well-seasoned, and with labours tanned,
- Till he did greet white Achelous’ tide,
- And from his farther bank Ætolia’s wolds espied.
- 1833, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “To J. S.” in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 158,[4]
- The wind that beats the mountain, blows
- More softly round the open wold,
- 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, Part IV,[5]
- Blossomed the opening spring, and the notes of the robin and bluebird
- Sounded sweet upon wold and in wood, yet Gabriel came not.
- 1865, Christina Rossetti, “From Sunset to Star Rise” in Poems, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1906, p. 26,[6]
- Take counsel, sever from my lot your lot,
- Dwell in your pleasant places, hoard your gold;
- Lest you with me should shiver on the wold,
- Athirst and hungering on a barren spot.
- 1881, Oscar Wilde, “Rome Unvisited” in Poems, London: Methuen & Co., 12th edition, 1913, p. 48,[7]
- Before yon field of trembling gold
- Is garnered into dusty sheaves,
- Or ere the autumn’s scarlet leaves
- Flutter as birds adown the wold,
- 1942, Neville Shute, Pied Piper, New York: William Morrow & Co., Chapter 8,[8]
- It seemed to be a fairly large and prosperous farm, grouped round a modest country house standing among trees as shelter from the wind. About it rolled the open pasture of the wold, as far as could be seen.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene 4,[1]
- (obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.
Usage notes
- Used in many English place-names, always hilly tracts of land.
- Wald (German) is a cognate, but a false friend because it retains the original meaning of forest.
Derived terms
Related terms
- weald
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /w??ld/
Adjective
wold (comparative wolder, superlative woldest)
- (archaic, dialect, West Country, Dorset, Devon) Old.
Anagrams
- dowl, lowd, owld
Middle English
Verb
wold
- Alternative spelling of wolde
Middle Low German
Noun
wôld
- Alternative spelling of wôlt.
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weald
English
Etymology
From Middle English weeld, wæld, (also wold, wald > English wold), from (West Saxon dialect) Old English weald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz.
Compare German Wald, Dutch woud. See also wold, ultimately of the same origin. Largely displaced by forest.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /wi?ld/
- Rhymes: -i?ld
- Homophones: wealed, wheeled, wield
Noun
weald (plural wealds)
- (archaic) A wood or forest
- (archaic) An open country
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, Guinevere
- Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, / And heard the spirits of the waste and weald / Moan as she fled.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, Guinevere
Usage notes
In modern usage, the term is seldom used, but is retained in place names, for example The Weald, Wealdstone, Harrow Weald.
Derived terms
- Harrow Weald
- wealdish
Related terms
- wold
- wald
Anagrams
- Wadle, dwale, lawed, waled
Old English
Alternative forms
- wald
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wæ??ld/, [wæ???d]
Etymology 1
From Proto-West Germanic *walþu
Noun
weald m
- forest
- Synonyms: fyrhþ, holt, tr?ow, wudu
Declension
A u-stem dative singular form, wealda, is also attested.
Descendants
- Middle English: wald, wæld, wold, wolde, wald, walde, weld, welde
- English: wold, weald, wald, weld
- Scots: wald
Etymology 2
From Proto-West Germanic *wald, Proto-Germanic *wald?, whence also Old High German walt, Old Norse vald (Danish vold).
Noun
weald n
- power
- authority
Declension
Related terms
- ?eweald
- wealdan
- wieldan
Descendants
- Middle English: wald
- English: wald
Etymology 3
From Proto-West Germanic *wald, from Proto-Germanic *waldaz.
Adjective
weald
- powerful, mighty
- reigning, ruling, having authority
Declension
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
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