leed

From Middle English leed, 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 leid (“language”). More at lede.

leed (plural leeds)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Language; tongue.
2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.

• lede

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”).

leed (plural leeds)

1. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Patter; rigmarole.

• lied

• deel, dele, lede

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• Rhymes: -eːt

From Middle Dutch lêet, from Old Dutch *lēth, from Proto-Germanic *laiþą.

leed n (uncountable)

1. grief, sorrow
2. harm

From Middle Dutch lêet, from Old Dutch lēth, from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz.

leed (comparative leder, superlative leedst)

1. (Belgium) angry
2. sad

See the etymology of the main entry.

leed

1. singular past indicative of lijden

• deel, dele, edel, lede

From Old High German leid. Cognate with German leid, Dutch leed.

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

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.”

• Leed

• lede, leod, leode, also leude, lude

From Old English lēode (“people, men”), plural of lēod (“man, person”) (masc.), also “nation, people group, ethnicity, nationality” (fem.), akin to Old Frisian liod, Old Saxon liud, Old Norse ljóðr, lýðr, Old High German liut, Dutch lieden, German Leute (“people”). Akin to Old English lēodan (“to grow, spring forth”).

leed (plural common noun and collective noun, plural leeds or leeden)

1. People; persons collectively.
2. Countrymen, compatriots; vassals.
3. Man, person; human being.
4. Race, nation; nationality; kindred.

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leed

1. A copper kettle or caldron.
   • 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

     That stemed as a forneys of a leed

leed

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of leer.