Noun: leoþ
Gender:
Genitive
| Singular | lēoþes |
| Plural | lēoþa |
Dative
| Singular | lēoþe |
| Plural | lēoþum |
Sample Sentences
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late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
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Iċ onġiete þæt iċ þē hæbbe āþrotenne mid þȳ langan spelle, for þon þē lyst nū lēoða. (I see I've bored you with that long argument, since you want poems now.)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *leuþ, from Proto-Germanic *leuþą, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁w-. Cognate with Old High German liod (German Lied), Old Saxon lioð (Dutch lied), Old Norse ljóð (“verse, song”), Latin laus (“praise”). See: German Nouns '
Lied', Dutch Nouns '
lied', Latin Nouns '
laus'.
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