Editing Veld (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''veld'' ({{IPA|af|fɛlt}}) comes from the [[Afrikaans language|Afrikaans]] word for "field".

The etymological origin is older modern [[Dutch language|Dutch]] ''veldt'', a spelling that the [[History of Dutch orthography|Dutch abandoned]] in favour of ''veld'' during the 19th century,<ref>Winkel, Lammert Allard te. De grondbeginselen der Nederlandsche spelling: Regelen der spelling voor het Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal. Publisher: D. Noothoven van Goor, 1873. Download from: [https://archive.org/details/degrondbeginsel00winkgoog]</ref> decades before the first Afrikaans dictionary.<ref name="EAWCHBE">Eric Anderson Walker (ed). The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 4. [[Cambridge University Press]] 1963 (Afrikaans: pp. 890–894)</ref><ref>Berger, Iris. South Africa in World History. [[Oxford University Press]], 2009. {{ISBN|978-0195337938}}</ref> A [[cognate]] to the English "field", it was spelt ''velt''<ref>[http://gtb.inl.nl/iWDB/search?actie=article&wdb=MNW&id=61858 Lemma = "velt"], ''Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek'', [[Dutch Language Union]]</ref> in [[Middle Dutch]] and ''felt''<ref>[http://gtb.inl.nl/iWDB/search?actie=article&wdb=ONW&id=ID3615 Lemma = "felt"], ''Oudnederlands Woordenboek'', [[Dutch Language Union]]</ref> in [[Old Dutch]].