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welden

1. inflection of wellen:
   1. plural past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

From Old English wealdan, from Proto-Germanic *waldaną (“to rule”).

welden (third-person singular simple present weldeth, present participle weldende, weldynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle welded)

1. to reign, rule, command

• weld, welde, weldon, wielde, wild, wilde, wold, wolde, wolden, weld, welde
• weild, weilde, veild (northwest Midlands)
• weild, weilde, veild, wald, walde (Northern)
• walden, wælden (early southwest Midlands)
• wald, walde, wealde, wealden, uelden (Early Middle English)

• English: wield, wald
• Scots: wield, wald

• “wẹ̄lden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

welden (plural weldens)

1. alternative form of weldende

welden

1. (chiefly Early Middle English) alternative form of welled: past plural of wellen