vold

• IPA^(key): /vɔlˀ/, [ˈʋʌlˀ]
• Rhymes: -ɒl

From Old Norse vald, from Proto-Germanic *waldą, cognate with Swedish våld, German Gewalt.

vold c (singular definite volden, not used in plural form)

1. violence
2. force
3. assault and battery

• voldføre
• voldgive
• voldsom
• voldtage
• voldtægt

From Middle Low German wal, from Proto-Germanic *wallaz, *wallą, cognate with English wall, German Wall. An early loan from Latin vallum.

vold c (singular definite volden, plural indefinite volde)

1. bank
2. embankment
3. rampart, earthwork

From Old Norse vǫllr, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”), cognate with German Wald. Doublet of val.

vold c (singular definite volden, plural indefinite volde)

1. (archaic) field, meadow
   • 1837, B.S. Ingemann, Holger Danskes Vugge / https://kalliope.org/da/text/ingemann1837ha2:

     Ved Leire græsse nu Faar på Vold, | Hvor fordum Kæmperne drukke.

     At Lejre, the sheep now graze on the meadow where the warriors used to drink.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vold

1. imperative of volde

• vold on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Vold (flertydig) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

From Old Norse vald.

vold m (definite singular volden)

1. violence

• vald (Nynorsk)

vold

1. imperative of volde

• “vold” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• vøld

vold f (definite singular volda, uncountable)

1. (dialectal) alternative form of vald

From Norwegian Bokmål vold.

vold m (definite singular volden, uncountable)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of vald (“violence”)

vold

1. (pre-2012) imperative of volda

From Middle English fold, from Old English fald, falæd, falod, from Proto-West Germanic *falud.

• IPA^(key): /vɔːɫd/

vold

1. A pen for domesticated animals.
   • 1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 111:

     Aar's neer a vear o aam to be drine-vold.

     There is no fear of them to fall into a dry furrow or trench.

• drine-vold

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 111