The term weld is of English origin, with roots from Scandinavia. It is often confused with the Old English word , meaning 'a forested area', but this word eventually morphed into the modern version, wild. The Old English word for welding iron was ('to bring together') or ('to bring together hot', with hot more relating to red-hot or a swelling rage; in contrast to , 'to bind together with rope or fasteners').A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by John R. Clark Hall, Herbert T. Merritt, Herbert Dean Meritt, Medieval Academy of America -- Cambridge University Press 1960 Page 289 The term weld is derived from the Middle English verb well (; plural/present tense: ) or welling (), meaning 'to heat' (to the maximum temperature possible); 'to bring to a boil'. The modern word was probably derived from the past-tense participle welled (), with the addition of d for this purpose being common in the Germanic languages of the Angles and Saxons. It was first recorded in English in 1590, from a version of the Christian Bible that was originally translated into English by John Wycliffe in the fourteenth century. The original version, from Isaiah 2:4, reads, "" (they shall beat together their swords into plowshares), while the 1590 version was changed to, "" (they shall weld together their swords into plowshares), suggesting this particular use of the word probably became popular in English sometime between these periods.An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat -- Oxford Press 1898 Page 702
