leed

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.

Related terms

• lede

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.

Related terms

• lied

Etymology 3

See lede.

Noun

leed (plural lede)

1. (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 885426428, lines 9–12, page 318:

     & 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

See lead.

Verb

leed

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

Anagrams

• Deel, LEDE, deel, dele, lede

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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

Inflection 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. singular past indicative of lijden

Anagrams

• deel, dele, edel, lede

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leːt/
• Rhymes: -eːt
• Homophone: Leed

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.”

Related terms

• Leed

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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

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Scots

Alternative forms

• lede, leid, led, leide, leyd, leyde, leit

Alternative forms

• leid, lied

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

• IPA^(key): /liːd/

Noun

leed (plural leeds)

1. language

Usage notes

• Commonly understood language, either literally or metaphorically:

  A daena speak the leed.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leˈed/ [leˈeð̞]
• Rhymes: -ed
• Hyphenation: le‧ed

Verb

leed

1. second-person plural imperative of leer

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Yola

Etymology

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

Noun

leed

1. lead

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 52