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Old English
Pronunciation
Verb
byld
- singular imperative of byldan
Old Swedish
Etymology
Related to Norwegian Bokmål byll and maybe to Icelandic búlda. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
byld f
- boil, abscess, growth
Declension
Declension of byld (i-stem)
Descendants
References
West Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *biliþī. Cognate with Dutch beeld, German Bild.
Pronunciation
Noun
byld n (plural bylden, diminutive byldsje)
- image
- statue, sculpture
Derived terms
Further reading
- “byld”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011