Leed

• IPA^(key): /leːt/ (etymologies may be distinguished by tone)
• Homophone: leet

From Old High German liod.

• Lied (southern Moselle Franconian)

Leed n (plural Leeder, diminutive Leedche)

1. (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) song
   • 2003, “Wenn mir Kölsche singe”‎performed by Bläck Fööss:

     Leeder zom Laache, zom Kriesche och,
     Ha’ mer en Kölle satt un jenooch.
     Wat uns bewääch un wat uns bedröck,
     Dat moss einfach rus, söns weed mer verröck!

     Songs for laughing, for crying too,
     We have in Cologne plenty and enough.
     What moves us and what depresses us
     Must be expressed, or else we go crazy!

From Old High German leid.

• Lääd (eastern Moselle Franconian)
• Leid (Kölsch; Westerwald)

Leed n (no plural)

1. (Ripuarian, western Moselle Franconian) sorrow; grief; agony

• IPA^(key): /leːt/

Leed n

1. sorrow, grief, woe

• leedich

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *leuþ, from Proto-Germanic *leuþą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleː˦t/
• Rhymes: -eːt

Leed n (plural Leeder or Leechter, diminutive Leddsche or Leedsche) (German-based spelling)

1. (music) song (musical composition sung with vocals or vocal lyrics)

• The generally used plural form is Leeder. The plural form Leechter is used in some parts of Selfkant (some speakers here also use Leech in the singular).

• leed (Veldeke spelling)
• Leet (Eupen spelling)
• Leech (Selfkant)
• Leid
• Ledd (some Ripuarian-Limburgish dialects)

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *liþu, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleː˨t/
• Rhymes: -eːt

Leed n (plural Leeder) (German-based spelling)

1. (anatomy) joint, limb
2. member
3. link (in a chain)

• leed (Veldeke spelling)
• Ledd
• Gleed, Gledd (under influence from German)
  • Gléït (Eupen)

From Leid, with regular Ripuarian-Limburgish monophthongisation of -ei-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleː˨t/
• Rhymes: -eːt

Leed n (German-based spelling)

1. East Limburgish-Ripuarian form of Leid (“woe, sorrow”)

From Old High German leid. Cognate with German Leid, Dutch leed.

• IPA^(key): /leːt/
  • Rhymes: -eːt
  • Homophone: leed

Leed n (uncountable)

1. sorrow, grief, woe
2. misery

• (misery): Misär

• leed