anweald

• andweald, anwald, onwald, onweald

Perhaps originally a calque of Late Latin monarcha (“monarchy, sole power”). In any case equivalent to an- (“one”) +‎ weald (“power”). Compare Swedish envälde, Danish enevælde, Icelandic einveldi and German Anwalt.

IPA^(key): /ˈɑːnˌwæ͜ɑld/, [ˈɑːnˌwæ͜ɑɫd]

ānweald m

1. power
   • Exeter Book, Chrtist A, The Navitivity

     ...Ne lǣt awyrġde ofer us onwald āgan...

     Let not the accursed have power over us...

   • "Gospel of Saint Luke", chapter 10, verse 19

     And nū ic sealde ēow ānweald tō tredenne ofer nǣddran. And snacan and ofer ǣlc fēondes mæġen. And nān þing ēow ne derað...

     And now I gave you power to tread over adders and snakes and over each fiends' force. And no thing harms you.

2. empire

• A neuter nominative/accusative plural form ānwealdu is also attested.

Strong a-stem:

• wealdende (“powerful”)

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “án-weald”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.