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Wald vs Waled - What's the difference?

wald | waled |

As verbs the difference between wald and waled

is that wald is to govern; inherit while waled is past tense of wale.

As a noun wald

is power; strength.

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) ----

    waled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wale)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    wale

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) wale, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ridge or low barrier.
  • A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy. (As opposed to course)
  • The texture of a piece of fabric.
  • (nautical) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
  • A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
  • A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
    • (Knight)
  • A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
  • A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
    • (Holland)

    Verb

    (wal)
  • To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale.
  • * 1832: Owen Felltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political
    • Would suffer his lazy rider to bestride his patie: back, with his hands and whip to wale his flesh, and with his heels to dig into his hungry bowels?
  • * 2002: Hal Rothman, Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
    • When faced with an adulthood that offered few options, grinding poverty and marriage to a man who drank too much and came home to wale on his own family or...no beatings.
  • To give a surface a texture of wales.

    • See also

    * whale * weal * wheal

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . More at will.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.

    • Verb

  • to choose, select.

    • Anagrams

    * ---- ==Fulniô==

    Noun

    (head)

    • References

    * 2009' (originally '''1968 ), Douglas Meland, Doris Meland, ''Fulniô (Yahthe) Syntax Structure: Preliminary Version , Associação Internacional de Linguística - SIL Brasil, page 19. ----