auld

== English == === Alternative forms === aud, aul, oul, oul', ould === 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 === (US) IPA(key): /oʊld/ (UK) IPA(key): /əʊld/ (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ɑːld/ (Liverpool) IPA(key): /aːʊl/ Rhymes: -əʊld Homophone: old === Adjective === auld (comparative aulder, superlative auldest) (archaic, Northern England, Liverpool, Scotland, Ireland) Old. ==== Synonyms ==== aged, eldern, hoary; see also Thesaurus:old ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “auld”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “auld”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →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 === Daul, Dula, dual, laud, udal == Scots == === Alternative forms === ald, aald, aal, aul', aul, ould === 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) old ==== Derived terms ==== === 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.