Veld vs Weld - What's the difference?
veld | weld |
The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa.
* 1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 79:
* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 11:
* {{quote-news, 2007, January 14, Caroline Elkins, A Life Exposed, New York Times
, passage=For Holmes, Baartman’s journey as an object of European curiosity and African exploitation began on the veld of South Africa’s Eastern Cape. }}
possibly deriving from the (etyl) word for woodland. The family is mainly located in the Southern regions of England.
As nouns the difference between veld and weld
is that veld is the open pasture land or grassland of south africa while weld is game (animals, birds).veld
English
(wikipedia veld)Alternative forms
* veldtNoun
(en noun)- Pale yellow and greyish brown, the bare veld of late summer lay flat and listless under the drab sky.
- From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veld playing and fighting with the other boys of the village.
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