From en.wiktionary.org:
[bäld]
** English
*** Etymology
[en] [en] From [en], [enm], [enm], of [en] origin. Probably formed from [en],
[enm]. Compare [gmq-oda].
An alternate etymology has [ang] (from [en]), [sq] and [sq].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[er]
1. Having little or no hair , fur [,] or feathers .
2. * [passage=The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was BALD in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces.]
3. * [en]
4. [en] Having little or no hair on the head , or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head.
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. Of animals, having areas (of fur or plumage ) that are colored white , especially on the head.
8. [en] Denuded of any covering .
9. Of tyre s: whose surface is worn away.
10. Of a statement or account, unembellished .
11. * [en]
12. * [en]
13. * [en]
14. * [en]
15. Of a statement, without evidence or support being provided.
16. * [en]
17. * [en]
18. * [en]
19. * [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en |bald as a billiard ball |bald as a bladder of lard |bald as a coot
|bald cap |bald cypress |bald dick |bald eagle|bald person |bald earn |bald
erne |bald head |bald patch |bald spot |bald wig |bald-faced |bald-faced
hornet |bald-headed |bald-headed hermit |bald-headed row |bald-shame
|bald-shaming |baldchin groper |balden |baldfaced |baldhead |baldheaded
|baldie |Baldilocks |balding |baldingness |baldish |baldishness |baldist
|baldly |baldness |baldpate |baldpated |baldrib |baldy |like butter on a bald
monkey |long-beaked bald rush |make the bald man cry |mald |malding |nonbald
|piebald |semibald |skewbald |two bald men fighting over a comb }}
**** Translations
[having little or no hair]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn] [informal] , [bn] [colloquial]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb] , [ceb]
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dupaningan Agta: [duo]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Erzya: [myv] , [myv]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Farefare: [gur]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] ; [but usually expressed with the noun [de] : mit Glatze, hat eine Glatze, etc.]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io] , [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luhya: [luy]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Meru: [mer]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Mongolian:
- Navajo: [nv]
- Neapolitan: [nap] , [nap]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old English: [ang] , [ang]
- Old Javanese: [kaw]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota] , [ota] , [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa] , [sa]
- Sasak: [sas]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shor: [cjs]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [colloquial] , [es]
- Sudovian: [xsv]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Udi: [udi]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa] , [wa] , [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
- Yakan: [yka]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi]
- Yucatec Maya: [yua]
[trans-bottom]
[of a tyre, whose surface is worn away]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Farefare: [gur]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Italian: [it]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern [Appalachian Mountains] .
2. [en] A bald person.
3. * [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To become bald .
**** Translations
[to lose hair]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Maltese: [mt]
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*** See also
- [en]
- [en]
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
- [Appalachian balds]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** German
*** Etymology
From [de], from [de], adverb of [goh], [goh], from [de], from [de], from [de].
Cognate with [nl], [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [de]
- [de]
- [de]
- [de]
- [de]
*** Adverb
[de]
1. soon , near in time
2. almost
3. [de] [indicates a rapid alternation of states] ; now ..., now ... ; sometimes ..., sometimes ...
4. * [page=161]
**** Derived terms
- [de]
- [de]
- [de]
- [de]
**** Related terms
- [de]
*** Further reading
- [R:de:Duden]
- [R:de:DWDS]
[de] [de]
** Middle English
*** Adjective
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Old English
*** Pronunciation
- [bald]
*** Adjective
[ang-adj] [ang]
1. [ang]
**** Declension
[bald]
** Old High German
*** Alternative forms
- [goh]
*** Etymology
From [goh], from [goh], whence also [ang], [non].
*** Pronunciation
- [goh]
*** Adjective
[goh-adj]
1. bold , quick
**** Derived terms
- [goh]
- [goh]
**** Descendants
- [gmh]
- [de]
- [bar]
*** References
- Joseph Wright, _An Old High German Primer_
** Old Saxon
*** Etymology
From [osx], from [osx], whence also [ang], [non].
*** Adjective
[baldoro]
1. [en] , [en]
**** Declension
[bald]
**** Descendants
- [gml]
- [nds-de]
**** References
- Köbler, Gerhard, _Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (see http://www.koeblergerhard.de/aswbhinw.html) _ (5th edition 2014)