warld

warld

Middle English

Noun

warld

  1. (Catholicon Anglicum, County Durham, Early Scots, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Northumberland, Westmorland, West Riding) alternative form of world

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz, a compound of *weraz (man) +‎ *aldiz (age).

    Pronunciation

    • (13th CE) IPA(key): [warld]

    Noun

    warld f

    1. world

    Declension

    Declension of warld (feminine consonant stem)
    singular plural
    nominative warld warld
    accusative warld warld
    genitive warldes, warlde warlda
    dative warlde warldum, warldem

    Descendants

    • North Frisian:
      Föhr-Amrum: wäält
      Mooring: wråål
      Sylt: Wārel
    • Saterland Frisian: Wareld
    • West Frisian: wrâld

    References

    • Hofmann, Dietrich; Tjerk Popkema, Anne with co-op. Gisela Hofmann (2008), Altfriesisches Handwörterbuch [Old Frisian Concise Dictionary]‎[1] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, →ISBN
    • Köbler, Gerhard, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch (4th edition 2014)

    Scots

    Etymology

    Inherited from Middle Scots warld, from Middle English werld, variant of world, from Old English weorold, from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz.

    Noun

    warld (countable and uncountable, plural warlds)

    1. world
      • 1983, William Lorimer, transl., The New Testament in Scots, Edinburgh: Canongate, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, John 3:17, page 163:
        For God sentna his Son intil the warld tae condemn the warld, but at the warld suid be saufed throu him.
        Because God didn't send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but so the world would be saved through him.