wield

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• wēld
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• /wiːld/
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• rhymes with -iːld
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• homophone: wealed
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• homophone: Weald
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• homophone: weald
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• homophone: wheeled (wine–whine merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: W IY1 L D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English welde, from Old English *wield, ġewield (“power, control, dominion”), from Proto-West Germanic *waldi, from Proto-Germanic *waldiz (“power, might, control”).

From Middle English welden, from the merger of Old English wealdan (“to control, rule”) (strong class 7) and Old English wieldan (“to control, subdue”) (weak). Both verbs derive from Proto-West Germanic *waldan and *waldijan, respectively; and are ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waldaną (“to rule”). The reason for the merger was that in Middle English the -d in the stem made it hard to distinguish between strong and weak forms in the past tense.

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: владея (vladeja) — to handle with skill and ease
• Catalan: manejar — to handle with skill and ease
• Catalan: manipular — to handle with skill and ease
• Chinese Mandarin: 使用 (shǐyòng) — to handle with skill and ease
• Chinese Mandarin: 運用 /运用 (yùnyòng) — to handle with skill and ease
• Czech: ovládat — to handle with skill and ease
• Czech: zvládat — to handle with skill and ease
• Czech: zvládnout — to handle with skill and ease
• Dutch: beheersen — to handle with skill and ease
• Estonian: valdama — to handle with skill and ease
• Estonian: oskama — to handle with skill and ease
• Estonian: valitsema — to handle with skill and ease
• Finnish: hallita — to handle with skill and ease
• French: manier — to handle with skill and ease
• German: beherrschen — to handle with skill and ease
• Greek: χειρίζομαι (cheirízomai) — to handle with skill and ease
• Hungarian: kezel — to handle with skill and ease
• Icelandic: beita — to handle with skill and ease
• Irish: oibrigh — to handle with skill and ease
• Italian: maneggiare — to handle with skill and ease
• Italian: padroneggiare — to handle with skill and ease
• Japanese: 使いこなす (tukai-konasu) — to handle with skill and ease
• Māori: mau — to handle with skill and ease
• Occitan: manejar — to handle with skill and ease
• Occitan: gaubejar — to handle with skill and ease
• Occitan: mestrejar — to handle with skill and ease
• Old English: wealdan — to handle with skill and ease
• Polish: władać — to handle with skill and ease
• Portuguese: manusear — to handle with skill and ease
• Russian: владе́ть (vladétʹ) — to handle with skill and ease
• Russian: ору́довать (orúdovatʹ) — to handle with skill and ease
• Serbo-Croatian: vladati — to handle with skill and ease
• Spanish: manejar — to handle with skill and ease
• Swedish: svinga — to handle with skill and ease
• Swedish: hantera — to handle with skill and ease
• Bulgarian: боравя (boravja) — to handle or use a weapon
• Catalan: fer anar — to handle or use a weapon
• Czech: třímat — to handle or use a weapon
• Czech: držet — to handle or use a weapon
• Czech: ohánět se — to handle or use a weapon
• Czech: mávat — to handle or use a weapon
• Dutch: hanteren — to handle or use a weapon
• Estonian: käsitlema — to handle or use a weapon
• Estonian: oskama — to handle or use a weapon
• Estonian: valdama — to handle or use a weapon
• Finnish: käyttää — to handle or use a weapon
• Finnish: käsitellä — to handle or use a weapon
• French: brandir — to handle or use a weapon
• German: führen — to handle or use a weapon
• Hungarian: forgat — to handle or use a weapon
• Irish: láimhsigh — to handle or use a weapon
• Italian: brandire — to handle or use a weapon
• Māori: mau — to handle or use a weapon
• Māori: whakarere — to handle or use a weapon
• Occitan: brandir — to handle or use a weapon
• Occitan: manejar — to handle or use a weapon
• Polish: dzierżyć — to handle or use a weapon
• Polish: władać — to handle or use a weapon
• Portuguese: empunhar — to handle or use a weapon
• Portuguese: brandir — to handle or use a weapon
• Portuguese: manusear — to handle or use a weapon
• Serbo-Croatian: rukovati — to handle or use a weapon
• Serbo-Croatian: vitlati — to handle or use a weapon
• Spanish: empuñar — to handle or use a weapon
• Spanish: esgrimir — to handle or use a weapon
• Welsh: trin — to handle or use a weapon
• Bulgarian: упражнявам контрол (upražnjavam kontrol) — to exercise authority or influence
• Catalan: exercir — to exercise authority or influence
• Chinese Mandarin: 行使 (xíngshǐ) — to exercise authority or influence
• Dutch: uitoefenen — to exercise authority or influence
• Estonian: haldama — to exercise authority or influence
• Estonian: valitsema — to exercise authority or influence
• Estonian: valdama — to exercise authority or influence
• Finnish: hallita — to exercise authority or influence
• French: exercer — to exercise authority or influence
• German: ausüben — to exercise authority or influence
• Hungarian: gyakorol — to exercise authority or influence
• Irish: feidhmigh — to exercise authority or influence
• Occitan: exercir — to exercise authority or influence
• Old English: wealdan — to exercise authority or influence
• Polish: sprawować — to exercise authority or influence
• Polish: władać — to exercise authority or influence
• Portuguese: exercer — to exercise authority or influence
• Russian: вла́ствовать (vlástvovatʹ) — to exercise authority or influence
• Russian: облада́ть (obladátʹ) — to exercise authority or influence
• Serbo-Croatian: vlastovati — to exercise authority or influence
• Serbo-Croatian: vladati — to exercise authority or influence