ceald

From Proto-West Germanic *kald.

• cald — Anglian

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæ͜ɑld/, [t͡ʃæ͜ɑɫd]
• Rhymes: -æ͜ɑld

ċeald (comparative ċealdra, superlative ċealdost) (West Saxon, Kentish)

1. cold
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 18:18

     Þā þēowas and þā þeġnas stōdon æt þām glēdum and wiermdon hīe, for þām hit wæs ċeald.

     The slaves and the servants were standing at the coals and warming themselves, because it was cold.

   • Wonders of the East

     Þǣr syndan .II. sēaðas, ōðer sunnan ⁊ ōðer mōnan. Sē ðe sunnan is sē byð dæġes hāt ⁊ nihtes ċeald, ⁊ sē ðe mōnan is sē bið neahtes hāt ⁊ dæġes cald.

     There are two lakes there, one of the sun and the other of the moon. The one of the sun is hot during the day and cold at night, and the one of the moon is hot at night and cold during the day.

• hāt

• ċealdnes (“coldness”)

• Middle English: cold, coold, chald, cheald, cheld, schald (East Saxon, Kent, Southern), cald, calde (Early Middle English or Northern)
  • English: cold

    Geordie: cawd, cauld

    Ottawa Valley: cald, cowth

    West Riding: cowd

  • Scots: cald, cauld
  • Yola: coale, khoal, cole

From Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldą.

• cald — Anglian

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæ͜ɑld/, [t͡ʃæ͜ɑɫd]

ċeald n (West Saxon, Kentish)

1. cold, coldness
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     þonne hē be clifum cnossað. · Calde ġeþrungen
     wǣron mīne fēt, · forste ġebunden,
     caldum clommum, · þǣr þā ċeare sēofedun.
     Hāt ymb heortan · hungor innan slāt
     merewērġes mōd. · Þæt sē mon ne wāt

     then it beats near cliffs. My feet were
     squeezed by cold, bound by frost,
     with cold fetters, when there we bemoaned
     sorrows. Hot about heart, hunger within tore
     a sea-weary mind. The man didn't know that,

2. that which is cold

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: cold, cald, chald
  • English: cold
  • Scots: cald

• calan (“to be cold”)
• calian (“to be cold”)
• ċiele (“coldness, the cold”)