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English
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Etymology
From Scots auld or from Northern Middle English auld, aulde, awld, awlde, ald, alde, from Northumbrian Old English ald, variant of Old English eald (“old, mature, venerable; antique, ancient, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown up; old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (“grown, nourished, matured”). Compare cognate Latin altus (“nourished, raised, grown; tall”). Doublet of old.
Pronunciation
Adjective
auld (comparative aulder, superlative auldest)
- (archaic, Northern England, Liverpool, Scotland, Ireland) old
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Further reading
- “auld”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “auld”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “auld”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “auld”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Auld”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 564, column 2.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “auld”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 381, column 1.
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Scots
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Etymology
From Northern Middle English auld, aulde, awld, awlde, ald, alde, from Northumbrian Old English ald, variant of Old English eald (“old, mature, venerable; antique, ancient, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown up; old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (“grown, nourished, matured”). Compare cognate Latin altus (“nourished, raised, grown; tall”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
auld (comparative aulder, superlative auldest)
- old
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