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Middle English

Alternative spellings

Etymology

From Old English lēod "people"

Noun

Singular leod

Plural ledes

leod (plural ledes)

  1. people
  2. nation; a nation
  3. a man
  4. a serf or tenant
    lige leode (--"feudal retainers") --Piers Plowman

Old English

Etymology

(Closely related to lēode and lēodan.) From Germanic *leudi-, from Indo-European *leudh- ‘grow, come up’. Cognates include Old High German liut, Old Norse ljōðr; and, outside the Germanic languages, Lithuanian liáudis ‘common people’, Old Church Slavonic l’udъ (Russian люд).

Pronunciation

Noun

lēod m.

  1. man, chief, leader
  2. (poetic) a prince
  3. a fine for slaying a man, wergild

Declension 1 (masc.)

Singular Plural
nominative lēod lēode/lēodas
accusative lēod lēode/lēodas
genitive lēodes lēoda
dative lēode lēodum

Noun

lēod f.

  1. a people, people group, nation. Alternative form of lēode.

Declension 2 (fem.)

Singular Plural
nominative lēod lēoda
accusative lēode lēoda
genitive lēode lēoda
dative lēode lēodum

 

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