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Wald vs Waldo - What's the difference?

wald | waldo |

As nouns the difference between wald and waldo

is that wald is power; strength while waldo is a remote manipulation system in which a slave device mimics the motions of a master device manipulated directly by the operator.

As a verb wald

is to govern; inherit.

As a proper noun Waldo is

a given name derived from Old English, in modern American use transferred back from the surname.

wald

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (Scotland)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) walden, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • To govern; inherit.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) wald, iwald, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Power; strength.
  • Command; control; possession.
    • Related terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Forest; woods.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1812 , year_published= , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Walter Scott , title=Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border , chapter= , url= , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=124 , passage=… we still recognize the ancient traditions of the Goths, concerning the wald -elven,… }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1853 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Robert Simpson , title=History of Sanquhar , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=16 , passage=the romantic pass of the "wald path," along which runs a spur of an old Roman road }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1857 , year_published=2006 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=George Bradshaw , title=Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=1 , passage=MARDEN and STAPLEHURST—All this part of the line, through the Weald of Kent, i.e., the wald or forest, which still prevails here. }}

    References

    * (Webster 1913) ----

    waldo

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A remote manipulation system in which a slave device mimics the motions of a master device manipulated directly by the operator.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1940, author=Robert A. Heinlein, title=Waldo
    • , passage=Waldo flexed and extended his fingers gently; the two pairs of waldoes in the screen followed in exact, simultaneous parallelism.}} (Remote manipulator) English nouns with irregular plurals English terms derived from fiction