Depending on context, wood can be translated as:
Holz
Gehölz
Wald
Holz Wald
The Yiddish word for wood is "holtz."
wood / forrest = Wald wood (wooden) = Holz (hölzern)
Schnitz = (wood) carving
Wald = forest, wood, woodland
The word wood is said differently in different languages. In Spanish, it is called madera. In Italian you would say, legno. In German you would say, holz.
Chre is not a German word
Zimmerman means "carpenter" in German. In Middle High German, it was "Zimberman", the word "zimber" meaning timber, or one who works with wood, and "man", i.e., man who works with wood. Zimmerman is a German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) name that was Americanized by many families by changing it to its English equivalent... so, Zimmerman came from Carpenter.
No, wood is not a compound word.
The German word for "Who" is "Wer".
The German word for their is "Ihre."
"mit" is the German word for "with".