wald

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English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English walden, from Old English wealdan (“to rule, control, determine, direct, command, govern, possess, wield, exercise, cause, bring about”), from Proto-Germanic *waldaną (“to reign”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”). Cognate with German walten (“to prevail, reign, dominate”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Danish volde (“to cause”), Icelandic valda (“to cause”), Lithuanian valda (“land property”), Lithuanian valdyti (“to rule”).

Verb

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

  1. (UK dialectal, transitive, intransitive) To govern; inherit.

Etymology 2

From Middle English wald, iwald, from Old English ġeweald (“might, power, possession, control, command, dominion, bridle, protection, subjection, groin, pudenda”), from Proto-Germanic *waldą (“might, power, main”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”). Cognate with German Gewalt (“force, power, control, violence”), Swedish våld (“force, violence”).

Noun

wald (plural walds)

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

Etymology 3

From Middle English wald, from Old English weald (“high land covered with wood, woods, forest”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old High German wald (German Wald) and Old Norse vǫllr (Faroese vøllur, Norwegian voll, Icelandic völlur).

Noun

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.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wald”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English weald (“high land covered with wood, woods, forest”).

Noun

wald (plural walds or walden)

  1. wood (wooded area), forest

Descendants

  • English: wold, weald, wald, weld
  • Scots: wald

References

Old Danish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse vald.

Noun

wald

  1. force, violence

Descendants

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old English weald, Old Norse vǫllr

Noun

wald m

  1. forest

Descendants

Old Saxon

Etymology

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

Noun

wald m

  1. a forest

Descendants

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