leed
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English lede, shortened variant of leden (“language”), from Old English lēoden (“popular or national language, native tongue”), from Old English lēod (“people, nation”). Cognate with Scots leed (“language”). More at lede.
Noun
[edit]leed (plural leeds)
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Language; tongue.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English lede, led, leod, variant of Middle English leth, leoth (“song, poem”), from Old English lēoþ (“song, poem, ode, lay, verse”), from Proto-Germanic *leuþą (“song, lay, praise”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēw- (“to sound, resound, sing out”). Cognate with Dutch lied (“song”), German Lied (“song”).
Noun
[edit]leed (plural leeds)
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) Patter; rigmarole.
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[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]See lede.
Noun
[edit]leed (plural lede)
- (obsolete) Alternative spelling of lede (“a man; a person”)
- p. 1544, “fflodden ffeilde”, in John W[esley] Hales, Frederick J[ames] Furnivall, [Francis James] Child, W[illiam] Chappell, et al., editors, Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript. Ballads and Romances, volume I, London: N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1867, →OCLC, page 318, lines 9–12:
- & after to callice hee [Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey] arriued, / like a noble Leed of high degree, / & then to Turwin soone he hyed, / there he thought to haue found King Henery; […]
Etymology 4
[edit]See lead.
Verb
[edit]leed
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch lêet, from Old Dutch *lēth, from Proto-Germanic *laiþą, related to *laiþaz (“loath”).
Noun
[edit]leed n (uncountable)
Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: leed
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle Dutch lêet, from Old Dutch lēth, from Proto-West Germanic *laiþ, from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz.
Adjective
[edit]leed (comparative leder, superlative leedst)
Inflection
[edit]Declension of leed | ||||
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uninflected | leed | |||
inflected | lede | |||
comparative | leder | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | leed | leder | het leedst het leedste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | lede | ledere | leedste |
n. sing. | leed | leder | leedste | |
plural | lede | ledere | leedste | |
definite | lede | ledere | leedste | |
partitive | leeds | leders | — |
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]leed
Anagrams
[edit]Luxembourgish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German leit, from Old High German leid. Cognate with German leid, Dutch leed.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]leed
- (in expressions) grievous; cumbersome
- Ech sinn et leed. — “I’m fed up with it.”
- Dat deet mer leed. — “I’m sorry.”
- Hatt deet mer leed. — “I pity her.”
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]leed
- Alternative form of lede (“people”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]leed
- Alternative form of led (“lead”)
- 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
- That stemed as a forneys of a leed
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scots
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English lede, reduced form of leden, leoden (“language”), from Old English lēoden (“national language”, literally “of the people”), from lēode (“people”). More at lede.
Noun
[edit]leed (plural leeds)
Usage notes
[edit]- Commonly understood language, either literally or metaphorically:
- A daena speak the leed. ― I don't speak the language.
References
[edit]- “lede, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 20 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
- “leed, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 20 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
Spanish
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[edit]Verb
[edit]leed
Yola
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English led, from Old English lēad, from Proto-West Germanic *laud.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]leed
- lead
- 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 102:
- Which maate mee hearth as coale as leed.
- Which made my heart as cold as lead.
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52
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