# wald
## English
### Alternative forms

* wauld (Scotland)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɔːld/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔːld

### Etymology 1

From Northern Middle English walde, from Old English wealdan (“to rule, control, determine, direct, command, govern, possess, wield, exercise, cause, bring about”), from Proto-West Germanic *waldan, from Proto-Germanic *waldaną (“to reign”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”).
Cognate with German walten (“to prevail, reign, dominate”), Danish volde (“to cause”), Icelandic valda (“to cause”), Lithuanian valda (“land property”), Lithuanian valdyti (“to rule”).

#### Verb

wald (third-person singular simple present walds, present participle walding, simple past and past participle walded)
* (UK dialectal, ambitransitive) To govern; inherit.

### Etymology 2

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”).

#### Noun

wald (countable and uncountable, plural walds)
* (UK dialectal) Power; strength.
* (UK dialectal) Command; control; possession.

##### Related terms

* wield

### Etymology 3

From Northern Middle English wald, from Old English weald (“high land covered with wood, woods, forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old High German wald (German Wald) and Old Norse vǫllr (Faroese vøllur, Norwegian voll, Icelandic völlur).

#### Noun

wald (plural walds)
* Forest; woods.
** 1812, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Digitized edition, page 124:… we still recognize the ancient traditions of the Goths, concerning the wald-elven,…
** 1853, Robert Simpson, History of Sanquhar‎, page 16:the romantic pass of the "wald path," along which runs a spur of an old Roman road
** 1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol‎, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 1:MARDEN and STAPLEHURST—All this part of the line, through the Weald of Kent, i.e., the wald or forest, which still prevails here.

##### Related terms

* weald
* wold

### Anagrams

* Lawd, W.D. La., awdl

## Middle English
### Noun

wald
* Alternative form of wold

## Old Danish
### Alternative forms

* wold

### Etymology

From Old Norse vald, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz.

### Noun

wald
* force, violence

#### Descendants

* Danish: vold

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɑld/, [wɑɫd]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

wald m
* Alternative form of weald (“forest”)

##### Declension

Strong a-stem:

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

wald n
* Alternative form of weald (“power, authority”)

##### Declension

Strong a-stem:

### Etymology 3
#### Adjective

wald
* Alternative form of weald (“powerful”)

##### Declension
## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old English weald, Old Norse vǫllr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈwald]

### Noun

wald m
* forest

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: walt
** Alemannic German: Wald
    Swabian: Wald
** Bavarian: Woid, Woold
    Cimbrian: balt
    Mòcheno: bòlt
** Central Franconian: Wald (widely obsolete)
    Hunsrik: Wald
    Luxembourgish: Wal
** German: Wald
** Rhine Franconian: Wald, Wall
    Frankfurterisch: [valt]
** Yiddish: וואַלד (vald)

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old English weald, Old Norse vǫllr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwɑld/

### Noun

wald m
* forest

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: wôlt, wôld
** Dutch Low Saxon: woold, woud
** German Low German: Woolt, Woold, Wold
*** Plautdietsch: Woolt