wold

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Weald and wold, the cognates of Ger.

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  1. noun An unforested rolling plain; a moor.
  2. noun Variant of weld2.

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  • Should a Dark God walk Mid-wold, then one of the Tuathan will rise against him. —  The Flight of the Wren
  • Flesh of Mid-wold, mortal or Wessener, must shrivel before a power meant only for the Bright Gods to wield. —  The Flight of the Wren
  • If the gods should walk Mid-wold, if the Covenant be broken, all of Wayderness will fail… The knowledge pierced her like a knife thrust. —  The Flight of the Wren
  • I think what this wold is missing is some real religious innovation. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • There is a clump of trees growing all alone in the wold, desolate, mournful, by day, by night full of ill omen, far off from all other trees as wold-hut from other houses. —  Tales of Three Hemispheres
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  1. Middle English, from Old English weald, forest.

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  1. Formerly also would; also dial. old; from Middle English wold, wald, wæld, from Anglo-Saxon weald, wald, a wood, forest, = Old Saxon OFries. wald = Dutch woud = Old High German wald, Middle High German walt, German wald, a wood, forest (later Old French gaut, brushwood?), = Icelandic völlr (genitive vallar for *valdar), a field, plain; perhaps orig. a hunting-ground, consideredas ‘a possession,’ and so connected with Anglo-Saxon geweald (= German gewalt = Icelandic vald), power, dominion, from wealdan, etc., rule, possess: see wield. Cf. Greek ἂλσος (for *#567αλτ#567ος?), a grove. Cf. weald.
 

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