Exploring the strange and wonderful English language, one word at a time.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Weald
Weald \weeld\ , noun;
1. Wooded or uncultivated country
2. A region in southeast England in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region
Spanish moss at Fort Frederica, Georgia
The origin of weald is Old English and West Saxon weald ("forest, woodland"). It's a variation on Anglian wald, which derives from Proto-Germanic *walthuz.
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