leedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 lede, shortened variant of leden (“language”), from 古期英語 lēoden (“popular or national language, native tongue”), from 古期英語 lēod (“people, nation”). Cognate with Scots leed (“language”). More at lede.

名詞

leed (plural leeds)

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Language; tongue.
2. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
3. (UK dialectal, Scotland) The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.

関連する語

• lede

語源 2

From 中期英語 lede, led, leod, variant of 中期英語 leth, leoth (“song, poem”), from 古期英語 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.

名詞

leed (plural leeds)

1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
2. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
3. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Patter; rigmarole.

関連する語

• lied

語源 3

See lede.

名詞

leed (plural lede)

1. (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; […]

語源 4

See lead.

動詞

leed

1. Obsolete spelling of lead (“to guide”)..

アナグラム

• Deel, LEDE, deel, dele, lede

名詞

leed

1. Alternative form of lede (“people”)

語源 2

名詞

leed

1. 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)