thede

See also: Thede

English

Alternative forms

• theid (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English thede, theode, from Old English þēod (“nation, people, tribe, race”), from Proto-Germanic *þeudō (“people, nation”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”). Cognate with Middle Dutch diet (“people”), Middle High German diet (“people, folk, nation”), Norwegian tjod (“people, nation”), Icelandic þjóð (“people, nation”), Gaulish touta (“people”), Old Irish túath (“tribe, people, tribal territory”), Welsh tud (“region, country, people”), Breton tud (“people”), Cornish tus (“people”), Lithuanian tautà (“land, region, country”), Oscan touto (“community”). Cf. Old High German *thiuti in unkithiuti (“barbarian”) (Codex Abrogans), and Medieval Latin theodiscus (“German, one's own people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θiːd/
• Rhymes: -iːd

Noun

thede (plural thedes)

1. (UK dialectal, obsolete, Scotland) A nation; people.
2. (UK dialectal, obsolete, Scotland) A country; land; kingdom.
   • 1508, Golagros & Gawane sig. aiiiiv:

     All the wyis in welth he weildis in theid.

   • 2004, J. Douglas Bruce, Le Morte Arthur:

     For men told in many a thede That launcelot by the quene lay; [...]

Derived terms

• thede-folk

Translations

nation — see nation

Anagrams

• THEED, theed

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• þeode, þeod, þede, theode, thed

Etymology

From Old English þēod (“people, nation”), from Proto-Germanic *þeudō (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”). More at Dutch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θøːd/
• IPA^(key): /θeːd/

Noun

thede (plural thedes or theden)

1. people, group
2. tribe, community
3. nation, realm. kingdom
4. language

Related terms

• thedisch, þedisch

Descendants

• Scots: thede, theid
• English: thede, theod (archaic)

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Scots

Etymology

From Middle English thede, thiode, from Old English þēod (“nation, people”). See above.

Noun

thede (plural thedes)

1. a country; a nation; a people or community
2. a region or province
3. species; kind