Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA forest or wood. · An open country.
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, wold, ultimately of the same origin.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionwaldenm
- Inherited-form mentionwaldang
- Inherited-form mention*walþugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*walþuzgem-pro · forest
- Inherited-form mention*wel-ine-pro · to perceive, see
- Cognate mentionwaldfrr
- Cognate mentionWooldstq · forest
- Cognate mentionwâldfy · forest
- Cognate mentionWoidbar · forest, woods
- Cognate mentionbaltcim · forest, woods
- Cognate mentionwoudnl · forest, woods
- Cognate mentionWooldnds
- Cognate mentionWallb · forest
- Cognate mentionbòltmhn · wood, woodland
- Cognate mentionוואַלדyi · forest
- Cognate mentionvalda · plain
- Cognate mentionvøllurfo · lawn; field
- Cognate mentionvölluris · lawn; field
- Cognate mentionvallsv · field, pasture
- Cognate mention𒌑𒂊𒂖𒇻𒍑hit · meadow, pasture
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