Noun: bield
| Singular | bield |
| Plural | bields |
Sample Sentences
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This breast, this bosom soft, shall be thy bield / 'Gainst storms of arrows, darts, and weapons thrown. [1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book XVI, xlix]
Nouns inflected like bield
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
From Middle English belde, beeld, beld, from Old English bieldu (“courage, boldness”), from Proto-Germanic *balþį̄ (“boldness”), from *balþaz (“bold”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to inflate, swell”). Cognate with Old High German baldī (“boldness, courage”) (Middle High German belde), Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (balþei, “boldness, courage”). More at bold. See: Middle English Nouns '
belde', Old English Nouns '
bieldu', Gothic Nouns '
𐌱𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹'.