ceald

• cald — Anglian

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæ͜ɑld/, [t͡ʃæ͜ɑɫd]

From Proto-West Germanic *kald.

ċeald (comparative ċealdra, superlative ċealdost) (West Saxon, Kentish)

1. cold
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 18:18

     Þā þēowas and þā þeġnas stōdon æt þām glēdum and wiermdon hīe, for þām hit wæs ċeald.

     The slaves and the servants were standing at the coals and warming themselves, because it was cold.

• hāt

• ċealdnes (“coldness”)

• Middle English: cold, cald, chald, cheald, cheld, coold
  • English: cold
  • English: (West Yorkshire) cowd
  • English: (Ottawa-Valley) cald, coath
  • Geordie English: cawd, cauld
  • Scots: cald, cauld
  • Yola: coale, khoal, cole

From Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldą.

ċeald n

1. cold, coldness
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     þonne hē be clifum cnossað. · Calde ġeþrungen
     wǣron mīne fēt, · forste ġebunden,
     caldum clommum, · þǣr þā ċeare sēofedun.
     Hāt ymb heortan · hungor innan slāt
     merewērġes mōd. · Þæt sē mon ne wāt

     then it beats near cliffs. My feet were
     squeezed by cold, bound by frost,
     with cold fetters, when there we bemoaned
     sorrows. Hot about heart, hunger within tore
     a sea-weary mind. The man didn't know that,

2. that which is cold

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: cold, cald, chald
  • English: cold
  • Scots: cald

• calan (“to be cold”)
• calian (“to be cold”)
• ċiele (“coldness, the cold”)