wald

• wauld (Scotland)

• IPA^(key): /wɔːld/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːld

From Northern Middle English walde, 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”).

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

1. (UK dialectal, ambitransitive) To govern; inherit.

From Northern Middle English wald, 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”).

wald (countable and uncountable, plural walds)

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

• wield

From Northern Middle English wald, from Old English wald, weald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to perceive, see”) or *welH- (“to roll, undulate”). Largely displaced by forest.

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^[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.

• weald
• wold

• Lawd, W.D. La., awdl

wald

1. alternative form of wold

• walt (Föhr-Amrum)
• Walt (Sylt)

From Old Frisian wald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to perceive, see”) or *welH- (“to roll, undulate”).

wald

1. (Halligen) forest

• wold

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

wald

1. force, violence

• Danish: vold

• IPA^(key): /wɑld/, [wɑɫd]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wald m

1. alternative form of weald (“forest”)

Strong a-stem:

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wald n

1. alternative form of weald (“power, authority”)

Strong a-stem:

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wald

1. alternative form of weald (“powerful”)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈwald]

wald m

1. forest

• Middle High German: walt
  • Alemannic German: Wald

    Swabian: Wald

  • Bavarian: Woid, Woold

    Cimbrian: balt

    Mòcheno: bòlt

  • Central Franconian: Wald (widely obsolete)

    Hunsrik: Wald

    Luxembourgish: Wal

  • German: Wald
    • German: Waldhorn (see there for further descendants)
  • Rhine Franconian: Wald, Wall

    Frankfurterisch: [valt]

  • Yiddish: וואַלד (vald)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɑld/

wald m

1. forest

• Middle Low German: wôlt, wôld
  • Dutch Low Saxon: woold, woud
  • German Low German: Woolt, Woold, Wold
  • Plautdietsch: Woolt