wald
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- wauld (Scotland)
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
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”).
Verb[edit]
wald (third-person singular simple present walds, present participle walding, simple past and past participle walded)
- (UK dialectal, transitive, intransitive) To govern; inherit.
Etymology 2[edit]
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[edit]
wald (plural walds)
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Etymology 3[edit]
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[edit]
wald (plural walds)
- 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[1], 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[2], 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.
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Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
wald
- Alternative form of wold
Old Danish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse vald, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz.
Noun[edit]
wald
Descendants[edit]
- Danish: vold
Old High German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old English weald, Old Norse vǫllr.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
wald m
Descendants[edit]
- Middle High German: walt
Old Saxon[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old English weald, Old Norse vǫllr.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
wald m
Declension[edit]
singular | plural | |
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nominative | wald | waldos |
accusative | wald | waldos |
genitive | waldes | waldō |
dative | walde | waldum |
instrumental | — | — |
Descendants[edit]
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- Rhymes:English/ɔːld
- Rhymes:English/ɔːld/1 syllable
- English terms inherited from Middle English
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- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- British English
- English dialectal terms
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- English nouns
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- Middle English nouns
- Old Danish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Old Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Old Danish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Danish lemmas
- Old Danish nouns
- Old High German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old High German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- Old High German lemmas
- Old High German nouns
- Old High German masculine nouns
- goh:Forests
- Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Saxon terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Saxon lemmas
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- osx:Forests