Leid

From Middle High German leit, from Old High German leid, from Proto-Germanic *laiþą. Cognate with Dutch leed, English loath. Originally unrelated with the verb leiden (“to suffer”), though the two stems early on began to influence each other. See leid for more.

• IPA^(key): /laɪ̯t/

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• Homophones: leid, leit

Leid n (genitive Leides or Leids, no plural)

1. woe, grief, distress, sorrow, suffering, affliction

   Synonym: Kummer

2. wrong, harm, injury

• Freude

• leid
• leiden (related by secondary association only)
• Leiden (related by secondary association only)
• leider
• leidig
• leidvoll
• leidtragend
• Leidwesen

• leid tun, leidtun, Leid tun

• Leid in Duden online