Noun: bald
Sample Sentences
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Brn hair eyes & stache sks same 28-38 for gd times fun frndship & or possibly more near Waltham area no balds drugs queens kinky scenes fats or pot smokg. [1982 December 4, “GWM 32 6 165 North Of Bos”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20 (personal advertisement), page 18:]
Nouns inflected like bald
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *balluz
4. Old English *beall
5. Middle English bal?
6. Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
7. Proto-Indo-European *bʰḗlH-o-m
8. Proto-Germanic *bēlą
9. Proto-West Germanic *bāl
10. Old English bæl?
11. Middle English balled
12. English bald
13. From Middle English balled, ballid, bald (“bald”), of uncertain origin. Probably formed from Middle English bal, balle (“ball, round object, knoll, head”). Compare Old Danish bældet (“bald”).
14. An alternate etymology relates it to Old English bǣl (“fire, flame; funeral pyre”), from Proto-Germanic *bēlą. Compare Albanian balë (“white spot on the forehead”) and ballë (“forehead”). See: Middle English Nouns '
bal'.