A range of chalk hills in northeast England along both banks of the Humber River. a word for an area of hilly countryside, especially used in the names of places
[ 'wOld ] (noun.) before 12th century. From Middle English wald, wold, from Old English (Anglian) wald, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (cf. West Frisian wâld, Dutch woud, German Wald, Swedish vall 'pasture'), from Proto-Indo-European *u̯alt- (cf. Welsh gwallt 'hair', Lithuanian váltis 'ear of oats', Serbo-Croatian vlât 'ear of wheat', Ancient Greek lásios 'furry, hairy').