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wold.

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

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/wəʊld/Received-Pronunciation[wɒʊɫd]Received-Pronunciation/wɒld/Received-Pronunciation/wəwld/British, Southern, Standard

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

    archaic · regional

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

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

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.

adj/wəʊld/UK

  1. Old.

    Devon · West-Country · archaic · dialectal
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle English wolde.

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