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Wand vs Wald - What's the difference?

wand | wald |

As nouns the difference between wand and wald

is that wand is wall, partition while wald is power; strength or wald can be forest; woods.

As a verb wald is

to govern; inherit.

wand

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A stick or staff.
  • (by extension) An instrument shaped like a stick or staff such as a curling wand .
  • a magic wand.
  • A branch or stalk, especially of willow.
  • A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.

    • Derived terms

    * magic wand * violet wand * water wand

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector.

    • References

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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

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