Feld
/fɛld/noun
An obsolete or dialectal English form of “field,” meaning an open tract of land.
Did you know?Feld is closely related to German Feld and preserves the old Germanic idea of a field as broad, open ground rather than merely farmland.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*pelh₂-
“To spread out or lie flat”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*felþą
“Open, level land or field”
Old English
Old English
feld
“Open country, plain, cultivated land, or battlefield”
Middle English
Middle English
feld
“A field or tract of open land; a spelling variant of “field””
14th–15th Century
English
field
“The standard form increasingly replacing “feld” in written English”
Modern English
English
feld
“An obsolete or dialectal spelling of “field””