soon (near in time) · almost (of a changing value that is predicted to reach said number soon) · indicates a rapid alternation of states; now ..., now ...; sometimes ..., sometimes ...
köken: From Middle High German balde, from Old High German baldo, adverb of bald, pald, from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-. Cognate with Dutch boud, English bold.
aile: alsbald, baldig, baldmöglichst, bis bald, in Bälde, sobald
Bald ist der Urlaub vorbei.
Mit bald 80 Jahren ist mein Vater noch auf Apfelbäume geklettert.
köken: Claimed to be from Persian جلد (“fast”) by Rustemov, however Turkic cognates point to different etymology. Perhaps ultimately derived from Proto-Turkic *yïl- (“to slide”), see more at Chagatai ایلدام (ʾyldām).
köken: From Byzantine Greek νωρίς (nōrís), modified from Ancient Greek ἔνωρος (énōros, “early”), from a univerbation of ἐν ὥρᾳ (en hṓrāi), literally “in to (a) period of time”.
köken: Inherited from Latin currendō, from currendus, gerund of currō (“to run”). Synchronically a gerund of cure, an archaic or regional form of curge (“to flow”).