wald

See also: Wald

English

Alternative forms
  • wauld (Scotland)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /wɔːld/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔːld

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 *waldaną (“to reign”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”).

Cognates
Cognate with German walten (“to prevail, reign, dominate”), Danish volde (“to cause”), Icelandic valda (“to cause”), Lithuanian valda (“land property”), Lithuanian valdyti (“to rule”).

Verb

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

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

wald (plural walds)

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

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 vǫllr (Faroese vøllur, Norwegian voll, Icelandic völlur).

Noun

wald (plural walds)

  1. Forest; woods.
    • 1812, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Digitized edition, page 124:
      … we still recognize the ancient traditions of the Goths, concerning the wald-elven,…
    • 1853, Robert Simpson, History of Sanquhar‎, page 16:
      the romantic pass of the "wald path," along which runs a spur of an old Roman road
    • 1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol‎, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 1:
      MARDEN and STAPLEHURST—All this part of the line, through the Weald of Kent, i.e., the wald or forest, which still prevails here.

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

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:
      Þe wurmes & te wilde deor ... o þis wald wunieð.
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    • c. 1275, Layamon, Brut:
      Ȝif æi mon hine mihte ifinden uppe þissere wælden, ...
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    • c. 1330, Sir Tristrem:
      Beliagog in þat nede Fond him riche wald To fine.
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    • 1450, Wars of Alexander:
      Was nouthire waldis in þar walke ne watir to fynde.
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Descendants
  • English: wold, weald, wald
  • Scots: wald

References

Old Danish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

wald

  1. force, violence

Descendants

Old High German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈwald]

Noun

wald m

  1. forest

Descendants

Old Saxon

Etymology

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

Noun

wald m

  1. forest

Descendants
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