leed
名词 n.
动词 v.
发音 lēd
英文释义
名词 n.
- Language; tongue.
- A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
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Alternative spelling of lede (“a man; a person”).
— & after to callice hee [Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey] arriued, / like a noble Leed of high degree, / & then to Turwin soone he hyed, / there he thought to haue found King Henery; […]
- A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
- A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
- The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.
- Patter; rigmarole.
动词 v.
- Obsolete spelling of lead (“to guide”).
词源
词源 1
From Middle English lede, shortened variant of leden (“language”), from Old English lēoden (“popular or national language, native tongue”), from Old English lēod (“people, nation”). Cognate with Scots leed (“language”). More at lede.
词源 2
From Middle English lede, led, leod, variant of Middle English leth, leoth (“song, poem”), from Old English lēoþ (“song, poem, ode, lay, verse”), from Proto-Germanic *leuþą (“song, lay, praise”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēw- (“to sound, resound, sing out”). Cognate with Dutch lied (“song”) and German Lied (“song”), whence the English doublet lied.
词源 3
See lede.
词源 4
See lead.
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