English

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Noun

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leod (plural leod or leods)

  1. Alternative form of lede (person, people)
    • 1794, Joseph Ritson, The English Anthology. - Volume 3, page 43:
      Therefore have I no lykinge with tho leods to wonne.
    • 1875, Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, page 323:
      If any of the leod were obstructed in their attendance on the king, a heavy penalty was incurred.
    • 2002, Helena Hamerow, “The Forces of Production: Crop and Animal Husbandry”, in Early Medieval Settlements:
      In a world in which virtually everyone was a farmer, farming was not an 'occupation': the early medieval leod who, on the one hand, was in military service to the king, could also have fields to till.

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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leod

  1. Alternative form of led (lead)

Etymology 2

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leod

  1. Alternative form of lede (people)

Old English

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Etymology 1

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Cognate with Old Norse ljóði (prince, leader).

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lēod m

  1. man, chief, leader
  2. (poetic) a prince
  3. a fine for slaying a man, wergild
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-West Germanic *liudi, from Proto-Germanic *liudiz. Closely related to lēode and lēodan.

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lēod f

  1. a people, people group, nation
    lēodbealunational tragedy, calamity to a people
    lēodgryregeneral terror
    lēodrihtlaw of the land
    lēodweardgovernment
    lēodhatatyrant
    lēodbisċopbishop of a shire
  2. (in compounds) one's own people; home
    lēodbyġentraffic in one's own compatriots, slave trade
    lēodwynnjoy of home
    lēodhwætbrave, valliant
  3. Alternative form of lēode
  4. a people, people group, nation
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