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weald

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Wright's OE grammar
§303; §397;
power
    Ors. 4, 11; Bos. 97, 23.
Se wæs on his wealde (gewealde, MS. L. ),
Etymology
[He haueð his soule weald, O. E. Homl. ii. 79, 14. A neuere nane walde ne mihte swa mochel folc halde. Laym. 5253. Unnderr þe deofless walde. Orm. 38. Hine þet alle þing haueð on wealde, Anglia i. 31, 186. To don swilc dede adde he no wold, Gen. and Ex. 2000. O. Frs. wald: Icel. vald.]
Similar entries
v. án-, and-, ge-, on- (an-) weald ; wealdes, and next word.
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