# wild
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: wīld, IPA: /waɪld/, [waɪ̯ɫd], [ˈwaɪ̯.ɫ̩d]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪld

### Etymology 1

From Middle English wild, wilde, from Old English wilde, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair, wool, grass, ear (of corn), forest”).
Cognate with West Frisian wyld, Dutch wild, German wild, Danish vild, Swedish vild, Norwegian vill, Icelandic villtur.

#### Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildest)
* Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated).
    Antonym: tame
** c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Who so list to hounte”, in Egerton MS 2711‎, page 7v:noli me tangere for Ceſars I ame and wylde for to hold though I ſeme tame
** c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
** 1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 58:Thee Shepherd, thee the Woods, and deſert caves, / With wilde Thyme and the gadding Vine o'regrown,
** 1950 July, “Traveller's Joy”, in Railway Magazine, page ii (advertisement):Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.
** 2013 May–June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:Plant breeding is always a numbers game. […] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
    Przewalski's horses are the only remaining wild horses.
* From or relating to wild creatures.
    wild honey
* Unrestrained or uninhibited.
    I was filled with wild rage when I discovered the infidelity, and punched a hole in the wall.
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Prologue:Forgive these wild and wandering cries, ⁠Confusions of a wasted youth; ⁠Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise.
* Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
    The fraternity was infamous for its wild parties, which frequently resulted in police involvement.
** 2022 August 10, Philip Haigh, “Scotland switched on to electrification”, in RAIL, number 963, page 35:Those most rural routes will not get overhead wires. As Reeve told the seminar: "Even in my wildest dreams, I can't see a business case for electrifying the Far North Line."
* (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
    The aircraft's navigational equipment should not be powered from the wild AC bus except in an emergency, as its computers can be damaged by variations in electrical frequency.
* Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
** 2011 August 7, Chris Bevan, “Man City 2-3 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:City, in contrast, were lethargic in every area of the pitch and their main contribution in the first half-hour was to keep referee Phil Dowd busy, with Micah Richards among four of their players booked early on, in his case for a wild lunge on Young.
    Her mother was wild with fear when she didn't return home after the party.
* Furious; very angry.
* Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
    After a week on the trail without a mirror, my hair was wild and dirty.
* Enthusiastic.
    I'm not wild about the idea of a two day car trip with my nephews, but it's my only option.
* Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
    The novice archer fired a wild shot and hit her opponent's target.
* Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
    a wild roadstead
* (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
* (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
    Antonym: tame
* (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
    Did you hear? Pat won the lottery! — Wow, that's wild!
* Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
    In this card game, aces are wild: they can take the place of any other card.
** 2009, Leonardo Vanneschi, Steven Gustafson, Alberto Moraglio, Genetic Programming: 12th European Conference:We define a pattern as a valid GP subtree that might contain wild characters [i.e. wildcards] in any of its nodes.
* Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
    a wild track; wild sound

##### Derived terms

* American wild plum
* Asian wild horse
* buck wild
* common wild oat
* deuces wild
* go wild
* half-wild
* hog-wild
* in the wild
* Mongolian wild horse
* run wild
* semi-wild
* sow wild oats, sow one's wild oats
* take a walk on the wild side
* walk on the wild side
* wild allspice (Lindera benzoin)
* wild almond
* wild and woolly
* wild and wooly
* wild aneth (Meum athamanticum)
* wild-animal, wild animal
* wild as a Tuckernuck steer
* wild as a wet hen
* wild asparagus
* wild-ass, wild ass
* wild bachelor's button
* wild bachelor's-button
* wild balsam apple (Echinopepon wrightii)
* wild basil
* wild bergamot
* wild blueberry
* wild boar (Sus scrofa)
* wild buckwheat
* wild bugloss
* wild cabbage
* wild cane
* wild card, wildcard, wild-card
* wild carrot (Daucus carota)
* wildcat (Felis silvestris or Lynx rufus)
* wildcat strike
* wildcatter
* wild-cat, wild cat
* wild celery
* wild chamomile (Matricaria discoidea or Tripleurospermum inodorum)
* wild cherry (Prunus avium or Prunus serotina)
* wild chicory
* wild child
* wild cotton
* wildcrafting
* wild cucumber
* wild cumin (Bunium bulbocastanum)
* wild custard apple
* wild dill (Meum athamanticum)
* wild dog
* wild drake
* wild duck
* wildebeest (Connochaetes spp.)
* wild eggplant
* wild elder (Sambucus spp. or Nuxia floribunda)
* wilden
* wild endive
* wilder
* wilderness
* wildest
* wild-eyed
* wild feed
* wildfire
* wildflower, wild flower
* wildfowl
* wild foxtail millet
* wild garlic
* wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)
* wild ginger
* wild goat
* wild goose
* wild-goose plum
* wild guess
* wild haggis
* wild hair
* wild horse
* wild hyacinth
* wild indigo
* wilding
* wild ipecacuanha
* wild Irishman (Isopogon ceratophyllus)
* wildish
* wild land
* wild leek
* wild lettuce (Lactuca virosa)
* wild licorice
* wild life, wildlife
* wild lily-of-the-valley
* wild line
* wild loquat
* wildly
* wild mammee
* wild mangosteen
* wild man syndrome
* wild man, wild-man
* wild marjoram (Origanum vulgare)
* wild mint
* wild mustard (Sinapis arvensis subsp. arvensis, syn. Brassica kaber)
* wildness
* wild oat, wild oats
* wild olive
* wild onion
* wild orange
* wild out
* wild ox
* wild pansy
* wild passionfruit
* wild pieplant (Rumex hymenosepalus)
* wild pig
* wild pigeon
* wild pig syndrome
* wild pink (Silene caroliniana or Dianthus sect. Fimbriatum spp.)
* wild pitch
* wild plantain (Heliconia)
* wild plum
* wild potato
* wild purslane (Portulaca oleracea)
* wild radish
* wild rhubarb (Rumex hymenosepalus)
* wild rice (Zizania)
* wild river
* wild rosemary
* wild rue
* wild rye (Elymus spp. or Leymus spp.)
* wild service tree
* wild soursop
* wild Spaniard (Aciphylla colensol, Aciphylla squarrosa)
* wild spinach
* wild stonecrop
* wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca)
* wildstyle
* wild succory (Cichorium intybus)
* wild Syrian rue (Peganum harmala)
* wild thing
* wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum)
* wild tobacco (Nicotiana rustica)
* wild track
* wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
* wild turmeric (Curcuma aromatica)
* wild type, wild-type
* wild vanilla (Vanilla planifolia)
* wild weasel
* wild wee
* Wild West
* wildwood
* wild yam

##### Translations
#### Adverb

wild (not comparable)
* Inaccurately; not on target.
    The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.
* (of an audio recording) Intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
    Let's record it wild.

#### Noun

wild (plural wilds)
* (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
    After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild.
* (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
** 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
    Thus every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e’en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty funds supplies.

##### Derived terms

* in the wild

#### Verb

wild (third-person singular simple present wilds, present participle wilding, simple past and past participle wilded)
* (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
** 1989 April 22, David E. Pitt, “Jogger's Attackers Terrorized at Least 9 in 2 Hours”, in New York Times, page 1:...Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo, who said the attacks appeared unrelated to money, race, drugs, or alcohol, said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning has told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called "wilding". "It's not a term that we in the police had heard before," the chief said, noting that the police were unaware of any similar incident in the park recently. "They just said, 'We were going wilding.' In my mind at this point, it implies that they were going to raise hell."...
** 1999, Busta Rhymes (Trevor Taheim Smith, Jr.), Iz They Wildin Wit Us? (song)
    Now is they wildin with us / And getting rowdy with us.
* (intransitive, slang) (In the form wilding or wildin') To act in a strange or unexpected way.
** 2021 April 6, Shirley Ju, “The New Voice of Brooklyn is Here To 'Drench 'Em'”, in Flaunt Magazine‎, archived from the original on 7 September 2022:They had a big influence on me. They had a big influence on Brooklyn period. I like the nonsense. [laughs] They were wildin'. Everyone in Brooklyn was liking that shit. They're wildin'. Their story in the stu, it gets deep.
** 2021 October 14, Jack Beresford, “Hospital Security Guard 'Heartbroken' After Being Fired Over Viral Video Confrontation”, in Newsweek‎:Kinsey posted a clip of the incident alongside a caption that reads: "Damn the ER in Tulsa be wildin'."
** 2022 April 20, A. Sherrod Blakely, “The Neverending Disappointment of Kyrie Irving”, in Bleacher Report‎:The Ringer's Culture/NBA writer Wosney Lambre said it best: "I think it's a bad look for the players to be wilding on the fans like this. Fair or not, the players are held to a higher standard of decorum than the loser fans. It is what it is."

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

wild (plural wilds)
* Alternative form of weald

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch wild, from Middle Dutch wilt, from Old Dutch *wildi, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vəlt/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

wild (attributive wilde, comparative wilder, superlative wildste)
* wild

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch wilt, from Old Dutch wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʋɪlt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: wild
* Rhymes: -ɪlt
* Homophone: wilt

### Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildst)
* wild

#### Derived terms

* herwilderen
* verwilderen
* wilde akelei
* wilde eend
* wilde gagel
* wilde haren verliezen
* wilde judaspenning
* wilde kat
* wilde radijs
* wilde reseda
* wilde zwaan
* wildebras
* wildplassen
* wildplukken
* wildvreemd

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: wild
* Berbice Creole Dutch: weldri
* Jersey Dutch: wäld
* Negerhollands: wild, weeld, welt, willit, wil

### Noun

wild n (uncountable)
* game (food; animals hunted for meat)
* wildlife
* wilderness

#### Derived terms

* jachtwild
* pluimwild
* wildseizoen
* wildwissel

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: wild

### Anagrams

* lidw.

## German
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German wilde, from Old High German wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɪlt/
* Rhymes: -ɪlt
* Audio (Austria):(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

wild (strong nominative masculine singular wilder, comparative wilder, superlative am wildesten)
* wild (of animals, etc.)
* (informal) wild, unrestrained, raucous (of behavior, parties, etc.)
* (informal) crazy, hard to believe (of stories, situations, etc.)
* (obsolete) strange
    Synonym: fremd

#### Derived terms

* halb so wild
* wilde Ehe
* wildern
* wildfremd
* Wildheit
* Wildnis
* Wildernis

#### Related terms

* Wild
* Wildcamping
* Wildente
* Wildfang
* Wildgans
* Wildhengst
* Wildhund
* Wildhut
* Wildhüter
* Wildlachs
* Wildpferd
* Wildschaf
* Wildschwein
* Wildwasser
* Wildziege

### Further reading

* “wild” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “wild” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
* “wild” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “wild” in Duden online

## Hunsrik
### Etymology

Inherited from Old High German wildi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vilt/
* Rhymes: -ilt

### Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildest)
* wild

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Online Hunsrik Dictionary

## Low German
### Etymology

From Middle Low German wilde, from Old Saxon wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.
Compare English, Dutch and German wild, West Frisian wyld, Danish vild.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɪlt/

### Adjective

wild (comparative willer, superlative willst)
* wild

#### Declension
## Maltese
### Alternative forms

* weld

### Etymology

From Arabic وَلَد (walad).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɪlt/

### Noun

wild m (plural ulied)
* offspring
** 1949, Anton Buttigieg, “Ir-Riħ u l-Bnazzi”, in Mill-Gallerija ta’ Żgħożiti:Ħarbat, mewwet dawk id-dwieli, wild il-għaraq tal-ħaddiem, żomm il-fqir ġol-gorboġ waħdu, u bla ħobż, bla dawl, bla sliem!Destroy, kill those vines, the offspring of the worker’s sweat, keep the poor man in the hovel alone, without bread, without light, without peace!