warld
Middle English
Noun
warld
- (Catholicon Anglicum, County Durham, Early Scots, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Northumberland, Westmorland, West Riding) alternative form of world
Old Frisian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Etymology tree
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
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | warld | warld |
| accusative | warld | warld |
| genitive | warldes, warlde | warlda |
| dative | warlde | warldum, warldem |
Descendants
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)
- 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.