Word Origin Summary

*walþu is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• veldi

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• bòlt

  Mócheno · inherited from

• Wald

  Romanian · borrowed from

• Noord-Scharwoude

  Dutch · inherited from

• Waltham

  English · derived from

• waldrapp

  English · derived from

• Spaarnwoude

  Dutch · inherited from

• וואַלד

  YID · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root