leið
Old Norse
noun
Definitions
- a way
- a way, a road
- (nautical) a course
- (military) a levy
- a local assembly (in the Icelandic Commonwealth)
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
- *h₂leyt- Proto-Indo-European
- *leyt- Proto-Indo-European
- *laidō Proto-Germanic
- *laiþaz Proto-Germanic
- *mann- Proto-Germanic
- lei Norwegian Nynorsk
- sjølei Norwegian Nynorsk
- lad Old English
- laþ Old English
- lād Old English
- lādmann Old English
- lāð Old English
- lāþ Old English
- lōth Middle English
- leiðarstjarna Old Norse
- leiðr Old Norse
- laid, lait, leid Old French
- leit, lait Old French
- gönguleið Icelandic
- leið Icelandic
- leiðarstef Icelandic
- leiðtogi Icelandic
- leid Old High German
- leið Faroese
- laid Estonian
- lēth Old Dutch
- *laita Proto-Finnic
- leth Old Saxon
- leþ Old Swedish
- *laiþ Frankish