wald

• wauld (Scotland)

• IPA^(key): /wɔːld/

From Middle English walden, from Old English wealdan (“to rule, control, determine, direct, command, govern, possess, wield, exercise, cause, bring about”), from Proto-Germanic *waldaną (“to reign”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”). Cognate with German walten (“to prevail, reign, dominate”), Danish volde (“to cause”), Icelandic valda (“to cause”), Lithuanian valda (“land property”), Lithuanian valdyti (“to rule”).

wald (third-person singular simple present walds, present participle walding, simple past and past participle walded)

1. (Britain dialectal, transitive, intransitive) To govern; inherit.

From Middle English wald, iwald, from Old English ġeweald (“might, power, possession, control, command, dominion, bridle, protection, subjection, groin, pudenda”), from Proto-Germanic *waldą (“might, power, main”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”). Cognate with German Gewalt (“force, power, control, violence”), Swedish våld (“force, violence”).

wald (plural walds)

1. (Britain dialectal) Power; strength.
2. (Britain dialectal) Command; control; possession.

• wield

From Middle English wald, from Old English weald (“high land covered with wood, woods, forest”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old High German wald (German Wald) and Old Norse vǫllr (Faroese vøllur, Norwegian voll, Icelandic völlur).

wald (plural walds)

1. Forest; woods.
   • 1812, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Digitized edition, page 124:

     … we still recognize the ancient traditions of the Goths, concerning the wald-elven,…

   • 1853, Robert Simpson, History of Sanquhar‎, page 16:

     the romantic pass of the "wald path," along which runs a spur of an old Roman road

   • 1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol‎, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 1:

     MARDEN and STAPLEHURST—All this part of the line, through the Weald of Kent, i.e., the wald or forest, which still prevails here.

• Lawd, W.D. La., awdl

• wæld

From Old English weald (“high land covered with wood, woods, forest”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old High German wald (German Wald) and Old Norse vǫllr (Faroese vøllur, Norwegian voll, Icelandic völlur).

wald (plural walds or walden)

1. a wooded area, forested land, the woods; a wooded tract, forest preserve; the forest as a wild place

   Þe wurmes & te wilde deor ... o þis wald wunieð. — St. Margaret of Antioch, c1225

   Ȝif æi mon hine mihte ifinden uppe þissere wælden, ... — Layamon's Brut, c1275

   Beliagog in þat nede Fond him riche wald To fine. — Sir Tristrem, c1330

   Was nouthire waldis in þar walke ne watir to fynde. — Wars of Alexander, 1450

• Middle English Dictionary

• wold

From Old Norse vald.

wald

1. force, violence

• Danish: vold

From Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old English weald, Old Norse vǫllr

wald m

1. forest

• Middle High German: walt
  • Alemannic German: Wald
  • Bavarian: Woid

    Cimbrian: balt

    Mòcheno: bòlt

  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Wald

  • German: Wald
  • Yiddish: וואַלד‎ (vald)

From Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old English weald, Old Norse vǫllr.

wald m

1. a forest

• Middle Low German: wolt
  • Dutch Low Saxon: wold