wold

Meanings

Noun

• An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
• A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.

Adjective

• Old.

Origin

• From Middle English wald, wold, from Old English wald, weald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(ə)-t-. weald.
• See also Norwegian voll ("field, meadow"), Welsh gwallt ("hair"), Lithuanian váltis ("oat awn"), Serbo-Croatian vlat ("ear (of wheat)"), Ancient Greek λάσιος ("hairy")); also the related term weald.