Where does “wold” come from?

Wold comes from Middle English wold, from Old English weald meaning forest or wooded area, from Proto-Indo-European welh₁- meaning to turn or roll.

wold (English): An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a...

Definitions

  1. An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a...

Ancestry of “wold”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishwaldwood , forest
2Old Englishwald
3Proto-West Germanicwalþuforest
4Proto-Germanicwalþuzforest
5Proto-Indo-Europeanwel-to see

Words derived from “wold

Every word from Proto-Indo-European wel-