wald
Middle English
noun
Definitions
- wood , forest
Etymology
Inherited from Old English weald (woods, forest, high land covered with wood, power) inherited from *walþu inherited from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (forest).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*walþuz
Gloss
forest
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
森
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Waldo English
- wold English
- wolder English
- woldest English
- *wel(ə)-t- Proto-Indo-European
- *wólnus Proto-Indo-European
- *walþijō Proto-Germanic
- *walþuz Proto-Germanic
- geweald Old English
- wald Old English
- weald Old English
- weeld Middle English
- wold Middle English
- vald Old Norse
- vǫllr Old Norse
- wald Old High German
- *walþu gmw-pro
- walt Old Dutch
- wald Old Saxon
- wāld Old Saxon
- uaul Romansh
- wald Old Frisian