Old English · noun
leod
Normalised lēod
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong i-stem
- IPA
- /le͜oːd/
- Syllables
- le͜oːd (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- wergildslayingchiefleaderman
leod1 · noun · masculine
Senses
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man, chief, leader
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a prince
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a fine for slaying a man, wergild
Declension · strong i-stem
leod2 · noun · feminine · alternative form
Senses
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a people, people group, nation
An. DCCCLV Hēr hǣþene men ǣrest on Sċeapiġġe ofer winter sǣtan...⁊ þȳ ilcan ġēare [Aþelwulf cing] ferde to Rōme mid myċelre weorðnesse ⁊ þǣr wæs XII mōnoð wuniġende, ⁊ him þā hāmweard fōr ⁊ him þā Carl Francna cing his dohtor ġēaf him tō cwēne, ⁊ æfter þām tō his lēodum cōm...
Year 855 In this year the heathens stayed on Sheppey over the winter for the first time...And in the same year [King Athelwulf] went to Rome with much honor, and stayed there for twelve months. And them he went home and King Carl [the Bald] of the Franks gave him his daughter as a queen, and after that Athelwulf returned to his people.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -
one's own people; home
lēodbyġen
traffic in one's own compatriots, slave trade
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alternative form of lēode
Declension · strong ō-stem
All forms (6)
Etymology
Cognate with Old Norse ljóði (“prince, leader”).
From Proto-West Germanic *liudi, from Proto-Germanic *liudiz. Closely related to lēode and lēodan. Cognates Cognates include Old High German liut, Old Norse lýðr, and West Frisian -lju; and, outside the Germanic languages, Lithuanian liáudis (“common people”), Proto-Slavic *ľudъ (Russian люд (ljud)).
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