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leód

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
leód, e; f,
Wright's OE grammar
§367;
A people, nation, race, district occupied by a people [v. preceding word, and cf. mǽgþ],country
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  • Hit wæs hwílum on Engla lagum ðæt leód and lagu fór be geþincþum

    at one time it was in the laws of the English, that the people and the law went according to ranks,

    • L. R. 1
      • ;
    • Th. i. 190, 11
      • .

  • Ðæt leód and lagu trumlíce stande,

    • Wulfst. 74, 8
      • .

  • Feówer folccyningas, leóde rǽswan,

    • Cd. 95
      • ;
    • Th. 125, 6
      • ;
    • Gen. 2075
      • .

  • Ða fǽhþe eówer leóde

    the hostility of your people,

    • Beo. Th. 1197
      • ;
    • B. 596
      • .

  • Tó fela Deniga leóde,

    • 1396
      • ;
    • B. 696
      • :
    • 1202
      • ;
    • B. 599
      • .

  • Se wæs Cantwara leóde

    oriundus de gente Cantuariorum,

    • Bd. 3, 14
      • ;
    • S. 539, 27
      • .

  • Moyses leóde

    from the Israelites,

    • Cd. 149
      • ;
    • Th. 187, 16
      • ;
    • Exod. 152
      • .

  • Wæs his gewuna ðæt hé his ágene leóde Norþanhymbra mǽgþe sóhte

    solebat suam, id est, Nordanhymbrorum provinciam revisere,

    • Bd. 3, 23
      • ;
    • S. 554, 6
      • .

  • Hé wæs ealle ða land and leóde þurhfærende

    omnia pervagatus,

    • 3, 30
      • ;
    • S. 562, 13
      • .

  • Úres hláfordes gerǽdnes is ðæt man cristene menn of earde ne sylle ne húru on hǽðene leóde

    our lord's ordinance is, that Christian men be not sold out of the land, certainly not into a heathen country [or leóde = men, preceding word],

    • L. Eth. v. 2
      • ;
    • Th. i. 304, 16
      • :
    • Beo. Th. 387
      • ;
    • B. 192
      • .

  • Ðone Denisca leóda lufiaþ swýðost

    him [Thor] the Scandinavian peoples love most,

    • Wulfst. 106, 23
      • .

  • Beneuentius and Sepontanus hátton ða twá leóde

    Benevento and Sepontus were the two places called,

    • Blickl. HomI. 201, 22
      • .

  • Ealle him leóda lácum cwemaþ

    all nations shall make offerings to please him,

    • Ps. Th. 71, 10
      • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. liud-
:
O. Frs. liod
:
Icel. ljóð-; lýðr; m. people, common people
:
O. H. Ger. liut; m. n. populus, plebs.
]
Similar entries
v. land-leód, and preceding word.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “leód.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/21394.

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