different between feud vs leud

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: fyo?od, IPA^(key): /fju?d/
• Rhymes: -u?d

Etymology 1

From northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide/feide/fede, from Old High German fehida, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe +? -th), from Proto-Indo-European *pey?- (“hostile”). Old English f?hþ, f?hþu, f?hþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”) was directly inherited from Proto-Germanic *faihiþ?, and is cognate to Modern German Fehde, Dutch vete (“feud”), Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”), and Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”).

Alternative forms

• fede (obsolete)

Noun

feud (plural feuds)

1. A state of long-standing mutual hostility.

   You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.

2. (professional wrestling) A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
3. (obsolete) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

Related terms

• blood feud

Translations

Verb

feud (third-person singular simple present feuds, present participle feuding, simple past and past participle feuded)

1. (intransitive) To carry on a feud.

   The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin feudum. Doublet of fee.

Alternative forms

• feod

Noun

feud (plural feuds)

2. An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.

Synonyms

• fee
• fief

Related terms

• feudal
• feudalism

Translations

English

Etymology

1750, from Medieval Latin leud?s pl (“vassals or followers of the king”), from Frankish *liudi (“people”), from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?léwd?is (“man, people”). Cognate with Old High German liuti (“people, subordinates”), Gothic *???????????????????? (*liuþs), Old English l?od (“chief, man”). More at lede and leod.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo?od, IPA^(key): /lu?d/

• Rhymes: -u?d

• Homophone: lewd

Noun

leud (plural leuds or leudes)

1. (historical) A vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• antrustion

Anagrams

• ULed, duel, lude, lued

Middle English

Adjective

leud

1. Alternative form of lewed

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

leud m (genitive singular leòid, plural leudan)

1. breadth, width

Derived terms

• a leud
• domhan-leud