wold

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (archaic, regional) An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
2. (obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.

Adj

Old.

sinonimi

heath

hollow

lowland

moor

ridge

ridgeline

Traduzioni

πεδιάδα

κάμπος

bozkır

yayla

descampado

llanura

χερσαία έκταση

Heideland

άδενδρος χώρα

القفر

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/wəʊld/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: wald

Ereditato da inglese antico: wald

Affine norvegese: voll

Affine gallese: gwallt

Affine lituano: váltis

Affine serbo-croato: vlat

Affine greco antico: λάσιος

Ereditato da inglese medio: olde

In summary

From Middle English wald, wold, from Old English wald, weald (“highland covered with trees, wood, forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(ə)-t-. Doublet of weald.
Cognates
See also Saterland Frisian Woold (“forest”), West Frisian wâld (“forest”), Bavarian Woid (“forest”), Cimbrian balt (“forest”), Dutch woud (“forest”), German Wald (“forest”), German Low German Woold, Woolt (“forest”), Luxembourgish Wal (“forest”), Mòcheno bòlt (“forest”), Yiddish וואַלד (vald, “forest”), Danish vold (“field, meadow”), val (“plain”), Faroese vøllur (“field, lawn”), Icelandic völlur (“field, lawn”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk voll (“field, meadow”), Swedish vall (“field, meadow”), Welsh gwallt (“hair”), Lithuanian váltis (“oat awn”), Serbo-Croatian vlât (“ear (of wheat)”), Ancient Greek λάσιος (lásios, “hairy”)); also the related term weald.