Where does “wolder” come from?

wolder (English) comes from English wold, from Middle English wald, from Old English wald, from Proto-West Germanic walþu, from Proto-Germanic walþuz, from Proto-Indo-European wel- — to see.

wolder (English): A wold dweller, especially an inhabitant of the...

Definitions

  1. A wold dweller, especially an inhabitant of the...

Ancestry of “wolder”, step by step

wolder traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English wold

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishwoldAn unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a...
2Middle Englishwaldwood , forest
3Old Englishwald—
4Proto-West Germanicwalþuforest
5Proto-Germanicwalþuzforest
6Proto-Indo-Europeanwel-to see

via Dutch wieler

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchwielerbicycle
2Dutch-erForms agent nouns from verbs; Forms nouns for a...
3Old Dutch-āri—
4Proto-Germanic-ārijaz-er
5Latin-āriuser
6Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Indo-European wel- →