Wealdとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /wiːld/
• (General American) IPA: /wild/
• 韻: -iːld
• 異形同音異義語: wealed, wheeled, wield

名詞

weald (plural wealds)

1. (archaic) A forest or wood.
2. (archaic) An open country.
   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Guinevere”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 231:

     [S]he to Almesbury / Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, / And heard the Spirits of the waste and weald / Moan as she fled, or thought she heard them moan: […]

使用する際の注意点

In modern usage, the term is seldom used, but is retained in place names, for example The Weald, Wealdstone, Harrow Weald.

派生語

関連する語

• wold
• wald

アナグラム

• Wadle, dwale, lawed, waled

発音

• IPA: /wæ͜ɑld/, [wæ͜ɑɫd]

語源 1

From Proto-West Germanic *walþu.

名詞

weald m

1. forest

   Synonyms: fyrhþ, holt, trēow, wudu

語形変化

A u-stem dative singular form, wealda, is also attested. Strong a-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: wold, wald, walde, weld, welde, wolde, woolde, wæld (Early Middle English)
  • English: wold, weald, wald
  • Scots: wald

語源 2

From Proto-West Germanic *wald, Proto-Germanic *waldą, whence also Old High German walt, Old Norse vald (Danish vold).

名詞

weald n

1. power
2. authority

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

関連する語

• ġeweald
• wealdan
• wieldan

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: wald
  • English: wald
  • Scots: wald, wauld

語源 3

From Proto-West Germanic *wald, from Proto-Germanic *waldaz.

形容詞

weald

1. powerful, mighty
2. reigning, ruling, having authority

語形変化