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auld.

Old.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/oʊld/US/əʊld/UK/ɑːld/cot-caught-merger/aːʊl/
  1. Old.

    Ireland · Scotland
Where this word comes from

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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