Waldとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /wɔːld/
• 韻: -ɔːld

語源 1

From Middle English walden, from 古期英語 wealdan (“to rule, control, determine, direct, command, govern, possess, wield, exercise, cause, bring about”), from Proto-West Germanic *waldan, from Proto-Germanic *waldaną (“to reign”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”).

動詞

wald (三人称単数 現在形 walds, 現在分詞 walding, 過去形および過去分詞形 walded)

1. (UK dialectal, transitive, intransitive) To govern; inherit.

語源 2

From Middle English wald, iwald, from 古期英語 weald (“power, authority”), from Proto-Germanic *waldą (“power”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”). Cognate with German Gewalt (“force, power, control, violence”), Swedish våld (“force, violence”).

名詞

wald (複数形 walds)

1. (UK dialectal) Power; strength.
2. (UK dialectal) Command; control; possession.

関連する語

• wield

語源 3

From Middle English wald, from 古期英語 weald (“high land covered with wood, woods, forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old High German wald (German Wald) and Old Norse vǫllr (Faroese vøllur, Norwegian voll, Icelandic völlur).

名詞

wald (複数形 walds)

1. Forest; woods.
   • 1812, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Digitized edition, page 124:

     … we still recognize the ancient traditions of the Goths, concerning the wald-elven,…

   • 1853, Robert Simpson, History of Sanquhar‎^[1], page 16:

     the romantic pass of the "wald path," along which runs a spur of an old Roman road

   • 1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol‎^[2], Digitized edition, published 2006, page 1:

     MARDEN and STAPLEHURST—All this part of the line, through the Weald of Kent, i.e., the wald or forest, which still prevails here.

関連する語

• weald
• wold

アナグラム

• Lawd, W.D. La., awdl