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English

Noun

weald (plural wealds)

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

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.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /wiːld/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • (General American) IPA: /wild/
  • Rhymes: -iːld
  • Homophones: wealed, wheeled, wield

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Footnotes

  1. 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Guinevere”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 231: ↩

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