loude
Middle English
/luːd/, /ˈluːd(ə)/
adj
Definitions
- Making a lot of noise or tending to do so; loud.
- (rare) Hearable; detectable by one's listening.
- (rare) Obvious, easily detectable or discoverable.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hlūd (sonorous, sounding, noisy, loud) inherited from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz (loud, famous, noise, sound) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewtos (famous, heard).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱlewtos
Gloss
famous, heard
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aloud English
- loud English
- loude English
- louden English
- loudhailer English
- loudish English
- loudly English
- loudmouth English
- loudmouthed English
- loudness English
- loudsome English
- loudspeaker English
- megaloud English
- overloud English
- radioloud English
- *ḱlew- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱlewtos Proto-Indo-European
- *hlūdaz Proto-Germanic
- *hlūdijō Proto-Germanic
- hlud Old English
- hlūd Old English
- hlȳd Old English
- lēoden Old English
- loud Middle English
- lowd Middle English
- lowde Middle English
- lude Middle English
- hljóð Old Norse
- lut Old High German
- lūt Old High German
- *Hlūdawīg gmw-pro
- *hlūd gmw-pro
- *lūd Old Dutch
- hlud Old Saxon
- *Hlōdowig, *Hlūdawīg Frankish
- *Hlūdawīg Frankish
- hlud Old Frisian
- hlūd Old Frisian