Talk:wold

wold
Yes, yes, we all know that wold now has the opposite of its original meaning... but as the definition was already there, I decided to request verification for it rather than simply alter it, in case anybody can find obscure instances (presumable in very old sources) of this word being used to mean forest. Beobach972 18:33, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Forest is the first definition in the OED (as obsolete). Expanded a little. SemperBlotto 10:51, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The problem with finding cites may be that the spelling was only regularised at about the time the wood sense was becoming obsolete -- OED cites wealdo, walde, waldes, waldis, wald, and walda in the obsolete sense of wold at various times from 786 to 13??, but does not cite the exact spelling wold in any sense before 1205 (as plural wolden) or 1220. --Eng in ear 20:03, 26 February 2007 (UTC)