# leid
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /lɛi̯t/
* Homophones: lijd, leidt
* Rhymes: -ɛi̯t

### Verb

leid
* inflection of leiden:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* lied

## German
### Etymology

From Middle High German leit from Old High German leid, from Proto-West Germanic *laiþ, whence also English loath and Old Norse leiðr; also Latin laedō (“strike, betray”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laɪ̯t/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

leid (strong nominative masculine singular leider, comparative leider, superlative am leidesten)
* (obsolete outside of fixed expressions) distressing, uncomfortable

#### Usage notes

* Now only used with sein, werden, haben, and as part of the verb leidtun, leid tun (before 1996).

#### Derived terms

* leid sein
* leidtun; (dated or erroneous also) Leid tun, leid tun

#### Related terms

* Leid
* leiden
* Leiden
* leider
* leidig
* leidlich
* leidvoll

### Further reading

* “leid” in Duden online
* “leid” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Irish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

leid f (genitive singular leide, nominative plural leideanna)
* hint, inkling
* prompt
* pointer, clue

#### Declension

Second declension

#### Derived terms

* cárta leide
* leid a thabhairt
* leidchárta
* leideach
* leideoir

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

leid
* past participle of leie

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

leid
* past tense of lida

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

leid f (definite singular leidi, indefinite plural leider or leidir, definite plural leiderne or leidine)
* (pre-1917) alternative form of lei

### Etymology 3
#### Adjective

leid (masculine and feminine leid, neuter leidt, definite singular and plural leide, comparative leidare, indefinite superlative leidast, definite superlative leidaste)
* (pre-1917) alternative form of lei

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

leid
* (non-standard since 1938) imperative of leida

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *laiþ, whence also Old English lāþ, Old Norse leiðr.

### Adjective

leid
* uncomfortable

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: leit
** German: leid
** Silesian: leed

## Scots
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liːd/, /leːd/

### Etymology 1

From Middle English lede, leed, from Old English lēad (“lead (the metal)”). More at lead.

#### Noun

leid (plural leids)
* lead

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

leid (plural leids)
* Alternative spelling of leed

### 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.
* “leid, 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.