Noun: wald
Sample Sentences
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… we still recognize the ancient traditions of the Goths, concerning the wald-elven,… [1812, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Digitized edition, page 124:]
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the romantic pass of the "wald path," along which runs a spur of an old Roman road [1853, Robert Simpson, History of Sanquhar, page 16:]
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MARDEN and STAPLEHURST—All this part of the line, through the Weald of Kent, i.e., the wald or forest, which still prevails here. [1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 1:]
Nouns inflected like wald
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 Northern Middle English wald, from Old English weald (“power, authority”), from Proto-Germanic *waldą (“power”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”). Cognate with German Gewalt (“force, power, control, violence”), Swedish våld (“force, violence”). See: Old English Nouns '
weald', German Nouns '
Gewalt', Swedish Nouns '
våld'.
Verbs referencing "wald"
German Nouns
Gewalt, Dutch Nouns
geweld.