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Auld

//oʊld// adj, name

Definitions

Adjective

1
Old. Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, archaic

Adjective

1
a Scottish word wordnet

Proper Noun

1
A surname from Scots.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From Scots auld (“old”). Compare the English surname Old.

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