leed

See also: LEED and Leed

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: lēd, IPA^(key): /liːd/
• Rhymes: -iːd

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, page 318, lines 9–12:

     & 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

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

Descendants

• Afrikaans: leed

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

Declension

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	—

Derived terms

• met lede ogen

 

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

leed

1. singular past indicative of lijden

Anagrams

• deel, dele, edel, lede

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

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

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• lääs (Mooring)
• leet (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian let, from Proto-West Germanic *lat.

Adjective

leed (comparative leeder, superlative letst)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) late

Inflection

Inflection of leed (Föhr-Amrum dialect)

	masculine		feminine / neuter	plural
	indefinite	definite
positive
predicative / adverbial	leed
attributive	leeden	leed		leed
independent				leeden
partitive	leeds			—
comparative
predicative / adverbial	leeder
attributive	leederen	leeder		leeder
independent				leederen
partitive	leeders			—
superlative
predicative / adverbial	am letsten
attributive	—	letst		letst
independent				letsten

Scots

Alternative forms

• leid

Etymology

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

Noun

leed (plural leeds)

1. language

Usage notes

• Commonly understood language, either literally or metaphorically:

  A daena speak the leed. ― I don't speak the language.

References

• “lede, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 20 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “leed, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 20 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

leed

1. second-person plural imperative of leer

Yola

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liːd/

Noun

leed

1. lead
   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 102:

     Which maate mee hearth as coale as leed.

     Which made my heart as cold as 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