# leed
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: lēd, IPA: /liːd/
* Homophones: lead, lede, lied
* 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)
* (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Language; tongue.
* (UK dialectal, Scotland) A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
* (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”) and German Lied (“song”), whence the English doublet lied.

#### Noun

leed (plural leeds)
* (UK dialectal, Scotland) A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
* (UK dialectal, Scotland) A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
* (UK dialectal, Scotland) Patter; rigmarole.

##### Related terms

* lied

### Etymology 3

See lede.

#### Noun

leed (plural lede)
* (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
* Obsolete spelling of lead (“to guide”)..

### Anagrams

* Deel, LEDE, deel, dele, lede

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eːt

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lêet, from Old Dutch *lēth, from Proto-Germanic *laiþą, related to *laiþaz (“loath”).
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#### Noun

leed n (uncountable)
* grief, sorrow
* 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)
* (Belgium) angry
* sad

##### Derived terms

* met lede ogen

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

leed
* 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: /leːt/
* Rhymes: -eːt
* Homophone: Leed

### Adverb

leed
* (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
* Alternative form of lede (“people”)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

leed
* 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)
* (Föhr-Amrum) late

#### Inflection
## 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.
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### Noun

leed (plural leeds)
* 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: /leˈed/ [leˈeð̞]
* Rhymes: -ed
* Syllabification: le‧ed

### Verb

leed
* second-person plural imperative of leer

## Yola
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɛːd/

### Noun

leed
* 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