different between laud vs leud

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French lauder, from Latin laud?, laud?re, from laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”), from echoic Proto-Indo-European root *leh?wd?- (“song, sound”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l?d/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /l?d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

laud (countable and uncountable, plural lauds)

1. Praise or glorification.

   • 1528, William Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christian Man

     So do well and thou shalt have laud of the same.

2. Hymn of praise.
3. (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.

Translations

Verb

laud (third-person singular simple present lauds, present participle lauding, simple past and past participle lauded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To praise; to glorify.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke I:

     And hys mought was opened immediatly, and hys tonge, and he spake lawdynge god.

Translations

See also

• canonical hours
• lauder

Further reading

• laud in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• laud in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• laud at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Auld, Daul, Dula, auld, dual, udal

Estonian

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Germanic *flauþ or *flaut. Compare Swedish flöte. Also compare Lithuanian plautas and Latvian plauts.

Noun

laud (genitive laua, partitive lauda)

1. board
2. plank
3. table

Declension

Derived terms

• lauamäng

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin laus, laudem.

Noun

laud m (plural lauds)

1. praise, commendation

Related terms

• laudâ

Ilocano

Noun

laud

1. west

Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish lauta.

Noun

laud

1. board
2. plank

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?la.ud]

Verb

laud

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of l?uda

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Related to Finnish lauta, Estonian laud.

Noun

laud

1. board
2. plank

Inflection

Derived terms

• laudasine
• ?ukalduzlaud
• ikunlaud
• lumilaud
• möndlaud
• potklaud
• tedotuzlaud
• tölaud
• laudkund
• laudsein

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [la.?ud]

Noun

laud (nominative plural lauds)

1. lark (bird)

Declension

Hypernyms

• böd
• nim

Hyponyms

• hilaud
• hilaudül
• jilaud
• jilaudül
• laudil
• laudül

Derived terms

• brüyäralaud (“woodlark”), Lullula arborea
• felalaud (“skylark”), Alauda arvensis
• töpalaud (“crested lark”), Galerida cristata

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