weald

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

Pronounced as (IPA)
/wiːld/
Etymology

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.

uncultivated ground

waste ground

wooded country

uncultivated plot

waste plot

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