-
Germanic cosmology, it
stands alongside the term
world (cf. Old
English weorold, Old
Saxon werold, Old High
German weralt, Old
Frisian wrald, Old Norse...
- "world championship". The
English word
world comes from the Old
English weorold. The Old
English is a
reflex of the
Common Germanic *weraldiz, a compound...
- courtyard'). See
Midgard for
further discussion. *wira-alđiz 'man-age' OE
weorold, OFris. wrald, OS werold, MDu. werelt, OHG
weralt ON verǫld – Compound...
- /rms/, as in yrmþ,
wyrms /rld/, as in
weorld (a
sycopated variant form of
weorold) /lmd/, /lmθ/, as in cwylmd, cwylmð (syncopated
variant forms of cwylmed...
- the
ground and hit your head"). Also "the world",
whether expressed with
weorold or middanġeard. Note that "sea" is
still sometimes used
without "the" in...
