warld
Scots edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle English werld, variant of world, from Old English weorold, from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz.
Noun edit
warld (countable and uncountable, plural warlds)
- world
- 1983, William Lorimer, transl., The New Testament in Scots, Edinburgh: Canongate, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, John 3:17:
- For God sentna his Son intil the warld tae condemn the warld, but at the warld suid be saufed throu him.
- Because God didn't send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but so the world would be saved through him.