• IPA: /wɛld/

From Middle English welde, wolde, from Old English *weald, weard, variant form of wād, Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz.

weld

1. A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
2. The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.

• (Reseda luteola) dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad

• French: gaude, réséda des teinturiers
• German: Färberwau, Färberresede, Gelbkraut, Gilbkraut
• Portuguese: gauda, lírio-dos-tintureiros
• Spanish: gualda

• Spanish: gualda

Alteration of well ("boil, rise"), probably influenced by the past participle, welled.

weld (welds, present participle welding; simple past and past participle welded)

1. (transitive) To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.
2. (transitive) To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately.

   The arrows pierced through the welded ranks of the opposing army.

   • 1847, Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess:

     Now should men see / Two women faster welded in one love / Than pairs of wedlock.

• French: braser, souder
• German: schweißen
• Italian: saldare
• Portuguese: soldar
• Russian: сва́ривать
• Spanish: soldar, weldear (United States), hueldear (United States)

• German: zusammenfügen, vereinen, verbinden
• Portuguese: soldar
• Russian: объединя́ть
• Spanish: unir, soldar

weld (plural welds)

1. The joint made by welding.
   • 2001, James E. Duffy, I-Car Professional Automotive Collision Repair, page 173:

     Excessive spot weld time may cause the electrode tips to mushroom, resulting in no focus of current and a weak weld.

From Old English weald (sense 2).

weld (welds, present participle welding; simple past and past participle welded)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wield.
   • 1485: Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, p. 168 line 2 (Sommer edition)

     [Arthur says to a wicked giant] "he that alle the world weldeth gyue the ſorte lyf & ſameful dethe" ("He who wields all the world gives thee short life and shameful death")

   • 1485: Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, p. 172 line 2 (Sommer edition)

     [Arthur says to conquering knights] "ye be worthy to welde all your honour and worship"

   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC ↗:

     Turne thee to those that weld the awfull crowne

1. Surname possibly deriving from the Old English - word for woodland. The family is mainly located in the Southern regions of England.