wold – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of wold

Noun: wold
Sg.wold
Pl.∗woldes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Þe wurmes & te wilde deor ... o þis wald wunieð. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 1225, St. Margaret of Antioch]
  • Beliagog in þat nede Fond him riche wald To fine. [c. 1330, Sir Tristrem:]
  • Was nouthire waldis in þar walke ne watir to fynde. [1450, Wars of Alexander:]
  • Ȝif æi mon hine mihte ifinden uppe þissere wælden, ... [c. 1275, Layamon, Brut:]

Nouns inflected like wold

cokswain, notebem, Monday, gor, ewerer, fright, ere ryng, knelek, parvys, fern, wold, wolk, sych, redels,

Etymology

From Old English weald, wald (“high land covered with wood, woods, forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz. See: Old English Nouns 'weald'.

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