leod

leod (plural leod or leods)

1. Alternative form of lede (“person, people”).
   • 1794, Joseph Ritson, The English Anthology. - Volume 3, page 43:

     Therefore have I no lykinge with tho leods to wonne.

   • 1875, Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, page 323:

     If any of the leod were obstructed in their attendance on the king, a heavy penalty was incurred.

   • 2002, Helena Hamerow, “The Forces of Production: Crop and Animal Husbandry”, in Early Medieval Settlements:

     In a world in which virtually everyone was a farmer, farming was not an 'occupation': the early medieval leod who, on the one hand, was in military service to the king, could also have fields to till.

• DOLE, Delo, Deol, Doel, Dole, Ledo, OLED, dole, lode, olde

leod

1. alternative form of led (“lead”)

leod

1. alternative form of lede (“people”)

• IPA^(key): /le͜oːd/

Cognate with Old Norse ljóði (“prince, leader”).

lēod m

1. man, chief, leader
2. (poetic) a prince
3. a fine for slaying a man, wergild

Strong i-stem:

• ġelēod
• lēodsċeaþa

From Proto-West Germanic *liudi, from Proto-Germanic *liudiz. Closely related to lēode and lēodan.

lēod f

1. a people, people group, nation
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     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.

   lēodbealu ― national tragedy, calamity to a people

   lēodgryre ― general terror

   lēodriht ― law of the land

   lēodweard ― government

   lēodhata ― tyrant

   lēodbisċop ― bishop of a shire

2. (in compounds) one's own people; home

   lēodbyġen ― traffic in one's own compatriots, slave trade

   lēodwynn ― joy of home

   lēodhwæt ― brave, valliant

3. alternative form of lēode
4. a people, people group, nation

Strong ō-stem: