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wold

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /wəʊld/ / [wɒʊɫd] / /wɒld/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English wolde English wold Inherited from Middle English wolde.

  1. Old.

    “"[A] girt wind had a-blowed the wold tree auver, so that his head were in the water."”

    “"I've got a wold silver spoon, and a wold graven seal at home, too; but, Lord, what's a graven seal?"”

name

Etymology: * As a Norwegian surname, spelling variant of Vold, Voll. * As an English surname, from wold (“forest”).

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English wald, walde, weld, welde, wold, wolde, woolde, wæld, 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. Cognates Compare North Frisian wald, walt (“forest”), Saterland Frisian Woold (“forest”), West Frisian wâld (“forest”), Alemannic German and German Wald (“forest, woods”), Bavarian Woid (“forest, woods”), Cimbrian balt (“forest, woods”), Dutch woud (“forest, woods”), Low German Woold, Woolt (“forest”), Luxembourgish Wal (“forest”), Mòcheno bòlt (“wood, woodland”), Yiddish וואַלד (vald, “forest”), Danish val (“plain”), vold (“field, meadow”), Faroese vøllur (“lawn; field”), Icelandic völlur (“lawn; field”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk voll (“meadow”), Swedish vall (“field, pasture”); also Hittite 𒌑𒂊𒂖𒇻𒍑 (ú-e-el-lu-uš, “meadow, pasture”). See also wald, weald, ultimately of the same origin.

  1. An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.

    “Saint Withold footed thrice the ’old; He met the nightmare, and her nine fold;”

    “[…]—I came with my cousin, Frank Osbaldistone, there, and I must shew him the way back again to the Hall, or he’ll lose himself in the wolds.”

  2. A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.