leden
Middle English
/ˈlɛːdən/
verb
Definitions
- to lead guide, conduct, direct
- to lead manage, oversee, administrate
- to lead rule, head, hold ultimate authority
- to carry, take, bring
- to put, place, set down
- to lead (a life), to live
- to cause, engender, beget
Etymology
Inherited from Old English lǣdan (lead) inherited from Proto-Germanic *laidijaną (lead, cause to go, cause one to go).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*laidijaną
Gloss
lead, cause to go, cause one to go
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
鉛
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- lead English
- leaden English
- leadenly English
- leadenness English
- leden English
- lidden English
- laidun Finnish
- látigo Spanish, Castilian
- *leit- Proto-Indo-European
- *leyt- Proto-Indo-European
- látego Portuguese
- *in Proto-Germanic
- *laidijandz Proto-Germanic
- *laidijaną Proto-Germanic
- *līþaną Proto-Germanic
- alædan Old English
- belædan Old English
- forelædan Old English
- forlædan Old English
- forþlædan Old English
- gelædan Old English
- hlȳd Old English
- inlædan Old English
- lædan Old English
- lædere Old English
- lēaden Old English
- lēod Old English
- lēoden Old English
- lǣdan Old English
- mislædan Old English
- oferlædan Old English
- onlædan Old English
- utlædan Old English
- wiþlædan Old English
- ætlædan Old English
- aleden Middle English
- leaden Middle English
- lede Middle English
- leed Middle English
- leiða Old Norse
- látego Galician
- leiten Old High German
- *laidijan gmw-pro
- *leiden Old Dutch
- ledian Old Saxon
- lēda Old Frisian