wealth

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A large amount of money and valuable possessions.

   He used his wealth to help the poor.

2. 2
   noun

   A large amount or supply of something.

   She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project.

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Simplified etymology

Wealth arose in Middle English with the basic sense of "well-being." It was formed from well in the same way that health was formed from hale.

Inherited from Middle English welth, welthe (“happiness, prosperity”), from Old English *welþ, *welþu, from Proto-West Germanic *waliþu (“wealth”). Alternatively, possibly an alteration (due to similar words in -th: compare helth (“health”), derth (“dearth”)) of wele (“wealth, well-being, weal”), from Old English wela (“wealth, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *walô (“well-being, prosperity”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“good, best”); equivalent to weal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Dutch weelde (“wealth”), Low German weelde (“wealth”), Old High German welida, welitha (“w…

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