leed

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See also: LEED and Leed

English

Etymology 1

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

leed (plural leeds)

  1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Language; tongue.
  2. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
  3. (UK dialectal, Scotland) The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.

Etymology 2

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

leed (plural leeds)

  1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
  2. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
  3. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Patter; rigmarole.

Etymology 3

See lede.

Noun

leed (plural lede)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of lede (“a man; a person”)

Etymology 4

See lead.

Verb

leed

  1. Obsolete spelling of lead (“to guide”)..

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -eːt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lêet, from Old Dutch *lēth, from Proto-Germanic *laiþą, related to *laiþaz (“loath”).

Noun

leed n (uncountable)

  1. grief, sorrow
  2. harm

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch lêet, from Old Dutch lēth, from Proto-West Germanic *laiþ, from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz.

Adjective

leed (comparative leder, superlative leedst)

  1. (Belgium) angry
  2. sad
Inflection
Declension of leed
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 —

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

leed

  1. (deprecated template usage) singular past indicative of lijden

Anagrams

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German leit, from Old High German leid. Cognate with German leid, Dutch leed.

Pronunciation

Adverb

leed

  1. (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.”

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

leed

  1. Alternative form of lede (“people”)

Etymology 2

Noun

leed

  1. Alternative form of led (“lead”)
    • 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
      That stemed as a forneys of a leed

Scots

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English lede, reduced form of leden, leoden (“language”), from Old English lēoden (“national language", literally, "of the people”), from Old English lēode (“people”). More at lede.

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

leed (plural leeds)

  1. language

Usage notes

  • Commonly understood language, either literally or metaphorically:
    A daena speak the leed.

Spanish

Verb

leed

  1. second-person plural imperative of leer

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English led, from Old English lēad, from Proto-West Germanic *laud.

Noun

leed

  1. lead

References

  • 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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