FromMiddle Dutchwout, fromOld Dutchwalt, fromProto-West Germanic*walþu, fromProto-Germanic*walþuz.
woud n (pluralwouden,diminutivewoudje n)
- forest,woods,jungle
- 1778, Thomas Harmer,Waarnemingen over het Oosten uit reisbeschrijvingen, tot opheldering derHeilige Schrift, translated from English, with comments by "Johan Ernst Faber" (= Johann Ernst Faber), translated from German, publ. by G. T. van Paddenburg, second book, page 237.
Toen vond men nog veelewouden, waarvan er tot op dezen dag nog verſcheidenen overig gebleven zijn (12). Uit zulkewouden haalden de dorpſchappen hunnen brand, wanneer zij, gelijk om Aleppo zelfs, geen houwboſſchen hadden.- Back then there were still manyforests, of which several remain up to this day (12). Fromforests like these the villages took firewood when they, as was the case around Aleppo itself, didn't have any coppices for firewood.
- (figurative)mass,multitude,sea(now chiefly in relation to rules and prescriptions)
- eenwoud aan regels ―a multitude of rules (literally, “a woods of rules”)
