weald

Senso (Inglese)

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

sinonimi

uncultivated ground

badlands

timberland

waste ground

wasteland

wild

wilderness

woodland

wooded country

uncultivated plot

backwoods

waste plot

Traduzioni

kır

άδενδρη χώρα

ormanlık

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/wiːld/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: weeld

Ereditato da inglese antico: weald

Affine tedesco: Wald

Affine olandese: 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.