auld
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See also: Auld
Alternative forms
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)
Synonyms
- aged, eldern, hoary; see also Thesaurus:old
Related terms
- alderman
- auld birkie
- aulden
- auldfarrand
- auld-fashioned
- auld lang syne
- auld-warld
- auld wives' tongues
- eld
- elder
- old
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), volume 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.
Anagrams
Alternative forms
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
- (Central Scots, Southern Scots) IPA(key): /ɔl(d)/
- (Doric Scots, Southern Scots, cat-caught merger) IPA(key): /al(d)/
Adjective
auld (comparative aulder, superlative auldest)
Derived terms
- Auld Clootie
- Auld Enemy
- auld lang syne
- auld manny
- Auld Reekie
- auld-farrant
- auld-fashioned
- auld-warld
- aulden
- auldness
- auldrife
Further reading
- “auld”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “auld”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
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