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Wald vs Walm - What's the difference?

wald | walm |

As verbs the difference between wald and walm

is that wald is to govern; inherit while walm is to roll; to spout; to boil up.

As a noun wald

is power; strength or wald can be forest; woods.

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) ----

    walm

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To roll; to spout; to boil up.
    • (Holland)
  • * 1845 (?), A view of Devonshire in 1630, with a Pedigree of most of its gentry , page 344:
    • It serveth the inhabitants with fresh water walming out of springs, though itself be on all sides circumpassed about with the sea.
  • * 1905 , The Myths of Plato , page 442:

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