Leid

• Laid (obsolete)

From Middle High German leit, from Old High German leid, from Proto-Germanic *laiþą, related to *laiþaz (“loath”).

Cognate with Dutch leed, English loath. Originally unrelated with the verb leiden (“to suffer”), though the two stems early on began to influence each other. See leid for more.

• IPA^(key): /laɪ̯t/

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• Homophones: leid, leit

Leid n (strong, genitive Leides or Leids, no plural)

1. woe, grief, distress, sorrow, suffering, affliction

   Synonym: Kummer

2. wrong, harm, injury

• Freude

• leid
• leiden (related by secondary association only)
• Leiden (related by secondary association only)
• leider
• leidig
• leidvoll
• leidtragend
• Leidwesen

• leid tun, leidtun, Leid tun

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From Middle Low German *lēt, from Old Saxon lioth, from Proto-West Germanic *leuþ. Cognate to Lied n (“song”).

Leid n (plural Leier)

1. (Paderbornisch) song