auld

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From Scots auld or from Northern Middle English auld, aulde, awld, awlde, ald, alde, from Northumbrian Old English ald, variant of Old English eald (old, mature, venerable; antique, ancient, primeval), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (grown up; old), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (grown, nourished, matured). Compare cognate Latin altus (nourished, raised, grown; tall). Doublet of old.

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Adjective

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auld (comparative aulder, superlative auldest)

  1. (archaic, Northern England, Liverpool, Scotland, Ireland) Old.

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Scots

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Etymology

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From Northern Middle English auld, aulde, awld, awlde, ald, alde, from Northumbrian Old English ald, variant of Old English eald (old, mature, venerable; antique, ancient, primeval), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (grown up; old), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (grown, nourished, matured). Compare cognate Latin altus (nourished, raised, grown; tall).

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auld (comparative aulder, superlative auldest)

  1. old

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