ladde
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Noun edit
ladde nde (plural laddeeji ɗi) Adamawa Plural (laɗɗe ɗe)
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References edit
- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
- Tourneux, Henry, Daïrou, Yaya (1998) Dictionnaire peul de l'agriculture et de la nature (Diamaré, Cameroun), suivi d'un index français-fulfulde[1] (in French), Paris: Karthala, →ISBN, retrieved 29 April 2023
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Etymology edit
Probably from North Germanic, possibly Old Norse ladd (“hose, woolen stocking”); according to Liberman, words for socks, shoes, and stockings were used pejoratively as nicknames for fools. See also Swedish ladder (“old shoes”), lodde (“Frisian shoe”), lädder (“socks”), all said to be related to Old Norse loðinn (“hairy, shaggy, woolly”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ladde (plural laddes or ladden)
- A (male) servant or hireling (usually of a noble)
- A male commoner; a man with a low position in society.
- A man of low morals or behaviour (used derogatorily)
- Any man (without qualification); an adult male human being.
- A lad or boy; a male human child (including babies)
- (rare) A infantryman; a fighter who isn't mounted.
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “ladde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-29.
- Liberman, Anatoly, Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology, University of Minnesota Press, 2008, p. 139
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Verb edit
ladde