leid

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• IPA^(key): /lɛi̯t/
• Homophones: lijd, leidt
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯t

leid

1. inflection of leiden:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• lied

From Middle High German leit from Old High German leid, from Proto-West Germanic *laiþ, whence also English loath and Old Norse leiðr; also Latin laedō (“strike, betray”).

• IPA^(key): /laɪ̯t/

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leid (strong nominative masculine singular leider, comparative leider, superlative am leidesten)

1. (obsolete outside of fixed expressions) distressing, uncomfortable

• Now only used with sein, werden, haben, and as part of the verb leidtun, leid tun (before 1996).

• leid sein
• leidtun; (dated or erroneous also) Leid tun, leid tun

• Leid
• leiden
• Leiden
• leider
• leidig
• leidlich
• leidvoll

• “leid” in Duden online
• “leid” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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leid f (genitive singular leide, nominative plural leideanna)

1. hint, inkling
2. prompt
3. pointer, clue

• cárta leide
• leid a thabhairt
• leidchárta
• leideach
• leideoir

leid

1. past participle of leie

leid

1. past tense of lida

leid f (definite singular leidi, indefinite plural leider or leidir, definite plural leiderne or leidine)

1. (pre-1917) alternative form of lei

leid (masculine and feminine leid, neuter leidt, definite singular and plural leide, comparative leidare, indefinite superlative leidast, definite superlative leidaste)

1. (pre-1917) alternative form of lei

leid

1. (non-standard since 1938) imperative of leida

From Proto-West Germanic *laiþ, whence also Old English lāþ, Old Norse leiðr.

leid

1. uncomfortable

• Middle High German: leit
  • German: leid
  • Silesian: leed

• IPA^(key): /liːd/, /leːd/

From Middle English lede, leed, from Old English lēad (“lead (the metal)”). More at lead.

leid (plural leids)

1. lead

leid (plural leids)

1. Alternative spelling of leed

• “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.
• “leid, 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.