Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryOld.
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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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*h₂el- (grow)ine-pro
- Borrowed-form mentionauldsco
- Derivation mentionealdang · old, mature, venerable; antique, ancient, primeval
- Inherited-form mention*aldgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*aldazgem-pro · grown up; old
- Inherited-form mention*h₂el-ine-pro · grown, nourished, matured
- Cognate mentionaltusla · nourished, raised, grown; tall
- Doublet mentionolden
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