lede
English
/liːd/
noun
Definitions
- (now) A man; person.
- (chiefly) Men; people, folk.
- (UK) A people or nation.
- (chiefly) Tenements; holdings; possessions.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English lede inherited from Old English lēode (people, men) inherited from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (people, men, folk) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰis (people, man).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁léwdʰis
Gloss
people, man
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
民
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antipeople English
- committeepeople English
- depeople English
- dispeople English
- empeople English
- hillspeople English
- markspeople English
- merpeople English
- overpeople English
- people English
- people'd English
- peoplehood English
- peoplekind English
- peopleless English
- peopleness English
- peopler English
- peopleware English
- peoplewatching English
- peoplish English
- repeople English
- townpeople English
- townspeople English
- tribespeople English
- unpeople English
- Feuerwehrleute German
- Geschäftsleute German
- Leute German
- leutselig German
- popolo Italian
- gijlieden Dutch, Flemish
- hunlieden Dutch, Flemish
- lieden Dutch, Flemish
- пипл Russian
- pueblo Spanish, Castilian
- *h₁lewdʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁léwdʰis Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁léwdʰis Proto-Indo-European
- *liudiz Proto-Germanic
- *liudīz, *liudiz Proto-Germanic
- leod Old English
- leode Old English
- lēode Old English
- lēoden Old English
- lede Middle English
- ledish Middle English
- leed Middle English
- leod Middle English
- peple, peeple Middle English
- ljónar Old Norse
- lýðr Old Norse
- Lykke Danish
- liede Middle Dutch
- liudi Old High German
- liudī Old High German
- liut Old High German
- liuti Old High German
- liute Middle High German
- *liudi Old Dutch
- liut Old Dutch
- liudi Old Saxon
- Lüüte Alemannic German
- leed Scots
- leid Scots
- *liudi Frankish
- liaudis Lithuanian
- pipel Tok Pisin
- populus Old Latin
- pipol Pijin
- pipul Nigerian Pidgin