weald

Significado (Inglês)

1. A forest or wood.
2. An open country.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wiːld/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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.