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adj
Old.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, Scotland
Qualifier: archaic outwith Northern England; Liverpool; archaic outwith Northern England; Liverpool
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name
A surname from Scots.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
a Scottish word
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
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.
From Scots auld (“old”). Compare the English surname Old.
