lad
Old English
noun
Definitions
- way, course
- passage, watercourse, lode
- carrying, bringing, leading
- provision, sustenance
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *laidō (a way, course, way, leading).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*laidō
Gloss
a way, course, way, leading
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Leite German
- *leyt- Proto-Indo-European
- *laidō Proto-Germanic
- *laiþaz Proto-Germanic
- *mann- Proto-Germanic
- lei Norwegian Nynorsk
- lād Old English
- lādmann Old English
- lāð Old English
- leið Old Norse
- leiðarstjarna Old Norse
- leið Icelandic
- leið Faroese
- līte Middle High German
- laid Estonian
- *laita Proto-Finnic
- leþ Old Swedish