weald

Significat (Anglès)

1. (archaic) A forest or wood.
2. (archaic) An open country.

Sinònims

uncultivated ground

badlands

timberland

waste ground

wasteland

wild

wilderness

woodland

wooded country

uncultivated plot

backwoods

waste plot

Traduccions

kır

άδενδρη χώρα

ormanlık

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/wiːld/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: weeld

Heretat de anglès antic: weald

Cognat amb alemany: Wald

Cognat amb neerlandès: woud

In summary

From Middle English weeld, wæld, (also wold, wald > English wold), from (West Saxon dialect) Old English weald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz.
Compare German Wald, Dutch woud. See also wold, ultimately of the same origin. Largely displaced by forest.