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weald

noun
/wiːld/UK/wild/US

Etymology

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.

  1. inherited from *wel-✻ — “to perceive, see”
  2. inherited from *walþuz✻ — “forest”
  3. inherited from *walþu✻
  4. inherited from wald
  5. inherited from wald

Definitions

  1. A forest or wood.

  2. An open country.

    • [S]he to Almesbury / Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, / And heard the Spirits of the waste and weald / Moan as she fled, or thought she heard them moan: […]

  3. The physiographic area in south-east England situated between the parallel chalk…

    The physiographic area in south-east England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A hamlet in Bampton parish, West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref…

      A hamlet in Bampton parish, West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP3002).

    2. Former name of Sevenoaks Weald, a village in Kent, England

      Former name of Sevenoaks Weald, a village in Kent, England; possibly still used as a synonym.

The neighborhood

Derived

Harrow Weald, North Weald, North Weald Bassett, Sevenoaks Weald, South Weald, Wealden, wealdish

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