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weald

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Scrabble points
9
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Letters
5
Pronunciation
/wiːld/
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/wiːld/ · /wild/ · /wiːld/(UK)

Definition of weald

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic)A forest or wood.
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noun

  1. (archaic)A forest or wood.
  2. (archaic)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: […]”

name

  1. (British)The physiographic area in south-east England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.
  2. A hamlet in Bampton parish, West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP3002).
  3. Former name of Sevenoaks Weald, a village in Kent, England; possibly still used as a synonym.

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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…

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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.

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