leod

English

Noun

leod (plural leod or leods)

1. Alternative form of lede (“person, people”)
   • 1794, Joseph Ritson, The English Anthology. - Volume 3, page 43:

     Therefore have I no lykinge with tho leods to wonne.

   • 1875, Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, page 323:

     If any of the leod were obstructed in their attendance on the king, a heavy penalty was incurred.

   • 2002, Helena Hamerow, “The Forces of Production: Crop and Animal Husbandry”, in Early Medieval Settlements:

     In a world in which virtually everyone was a farmer, farming was not an 'occupation': the early medieval leod who, on the one hand, was in military service to the king, could also have fields to till.

Anagrams

• DOLE, Delo, Deol, Doel, Dole, Ledo, OLED, dole, lode, olde

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

leod

1. Alternative form of led (“lead”)

Etymology 2

Noun

leod

1. Alternative form of lede (“people”)

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le͜oːd/

Etymology 1

Cognate with Old Norse ljóði (“prince, leader”).

Noun

lēod m

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

Declension

Derived terms

• ġelēod
• lēodsċeaþa

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *liud(i), from Proto-Germanic *liudiz. Closely related to lēode and lēodan.

Noun

lēod f

1. a people, people group, nation

   lēodbealu ― national tragedy, calamity to a people

   lēodgryre ― general terror

   lēodriht ― law of the land

   lēodweard ― government

   lēodhata ― tyrant

   lēodbisċop ― bishop of a shire

2. (in compounds) one's own people; home

   lēodbyġen ― traffic in one's own compatriots, slave trade

   lēodwynn ― joy of home

   lēodhwæt ― brave, valliant

3. Alternative form of lēode
4. a people, people group, nation

Declension

Derived terms

• lēoden