wold

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

heath

hollow

lowland

moor

ridge

ridgeline

Translations

πεδιάδα

κάμπος

bozkır

yayla

descampado

llanura

χερσαία έκταση

Heideland

άδενδρος χώρα

القفر

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wəʊld/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: wald

Inherited from Old English: wald

Cognate with Norwegian: voll

Cognate with Welsh: gwallt

Cognate with Lithuanian: váltis

Cognate with Serbo-Croatian: vlat

Cognate with Ancient Greek: λάσιος

Inherited from Middle English: 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.