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"word": "Harrow Weald"
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"word": "North Weald"
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"word": "North Weald Bassett"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English weeld, wæld, (also wold, wald > English wold), from (West Saxon dialect) Old English weald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz.\nCompare German Wald, Dutch woud. See also wold, ultimately of the same origin. Largely displaced by forest.",
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"A forest or wood."
],
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"(archaic) A forest or wood."
],
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"glosses": [
"An open country."
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"(archaic) An open country."
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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},
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"ipa": "/wild/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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},
{
"homophone": "wealed"
},
{
"homophone": "wheeled"
},
{
"homophone": "wield"
},
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],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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"Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂welh₁-",
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"Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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"en:Forests"
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{
"word": "North Weald"
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{
"word": "North Weald Bassett"
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{
"word": "wealdish"
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"name": "inh"
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},
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"name": "cog"
},
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},
"expansion": "Dutch woud",
"name": "cog"
},
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"2": "wold"
},
"expansion": "wold",
"name": "m"
},
{
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"2": "forest"
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"name": "l"
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],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English weeld, wæld, (also wold, wald > English wold), from (West Saxon dialect) Old English weald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz.\nCompare German Wald, Dutch woud. See also wold, ultimately of the same origin. Largely displaced by forest.",
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"glosses": [
"A forest or wood."
],
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"(archaic) A forest or wood."
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"English terms with archaic senses"
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"An open country."
],
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"(archaic) An open country."
],
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"archaic"
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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
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"ipa": "/wild/",
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{
"homophone": "wealed"
},
{
"homophone": "wheeled"
},
{
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"tags": [
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