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leed en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
/liːd/
lēd
Etymology
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.
Meanings
(Northern-England, Scotland) Language; tongue.
(Scotland) A national tongue (contra a foreign language).
(Scotland) The speech of a person, echelon of persons, or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.
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”) and German Lied (“song”), whence the English doublet lied.
Meanings
A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
& 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; […] 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:
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leed en · VERB · etymology 4
Pronunciation
/liːd/
lēd
Etymology
See lead.
Meanings
(alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete spelling of lead (“to guide”).