different between leid vs meid

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?i?t/
• Homophones: lijd, leidt
• Rhymes: -?i?t

Verb

leid

1. first-person singular present indicative of leiden
2. imperative of leiden

Anagrams

• lied

German

Etymology

From Middle High German leit from Old High German leid, from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz, whence also English loathe and Old Norse leiðr. From Proto-Indo-European *h?leyt- (“unpleasant; to loathe, transgress”) whence also Latin laed? (“strike, betray”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la??t/

Adjective

leid (comparative leider, superlative am leidesten)

1. (obsolete outside of fixed expressions) distressing, uncomfortable

Usage notes

• Now only used with sein, werden, haben, and as part of the verb leidtun.
• The spelling leid tun was used before the 1996 spelling reform, which replaced it with the spelling Leid tun. In 2004 the alternative form leidtun was added to this, and in 2006 the first reform spelling Leid tun became proscribed. The reasoning for the now prescribed lowercase spelling in the official spelling rules is however incorrect because leid in leidtun and es tut mir/ihm etc. leid is not a form of the noun Leid that has "mostly lost the characteristics of a noun".

Declension

Derived terms

• leid sein
• leidtun; (dated or erroneous also) Leid tun, leid tun

Related terms

• Leid
• leiden
• Leiden
• leidig
• leidvoll

References

Further reading

• “leid” in Duden online

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

leid f (genitive singular leide, nominative plural leideanna)

1. hint, inkling
2. prompt
3. pointer, clue

Declension

Derived terms

• cárta leide
• leid a thabhairt
• leidchárta
• leideach
• leideoir

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

leid

1. past participle of leie

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

leid f (definite singular leidi, indefinite plural leider or leidir, definite plural leiderne or leidine)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1917; superseded by lei

Etymology 2

Adjective

leid (masculine and feminine leid, neuter leidt, definite singular and plural leide, comparative leidare, indefinite superlative leidast, definite superlative leidaste)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1917; superseded by lei

Etymology 3

Verb

leid

1. (non-standard since 1938) imperative of leida

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *laiþaz, whence also Old English l?þ, Old Norse leiðr.

Adjective

leid

1. uncomfortable

Descendants

• Middle High German: leit
  • German: leid
  • Silesian: leed

Scots

Alternative forms

• lede, led, leide, leyd, leyde, leit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?d/, /le?d/

Etymology 1

From earlier leed, from Middle English lede, reduced form of leden, leoden (“language”), from Old English l?oden (“national language”, literally “of the people”), from l?ode (“people”). More at lede.

Alternative forms

• leed, lied

Noun

leid (plural leids)

1. language

Usage notes

• Commonly understood language, either literally or metaphorically:

Etymology 2

From Middle English lede, leed, from Old English l?ad (“lead (the metal)”). More at lead.

Noun

leid (plural leids)

1. lead

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans meid, from Dutch meid. Doublet of maid.

Pronunciation

• (S Africa, UK) IPA^(key): /me?t/

Noun

meid (plural meide)

1. (South Africa, offensive) A young black woman. [from 20th c.]
   • 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, p. 113:

     The last time she heard Capt Stolz saying: ‘Come on, meid, speak up. Or do you want to die like Gordon Ngubene?’

Anagrams

• Demi, Diem, Dime, demi, demi-, dime, idem

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch meid (“girl”).

Noun

meid (plural meide)

1. (now offensive) A young Black woman.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch meit, variant of meget, from Old Dutch *megith, *magath, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Doublet of maagd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?i?t/
• Hyphenation: meid
• Rhymes: -?i?t
• Homophones: mijd, mijdt, mijt

Noun

meid f (plural meiden, diminutive meisje n or meiske n or meidje n)

1. girl, lass

2. maid

   Synonyms: bode, deerne, dienstbode, dienstmaagd

3. Commonly used as an address for female pets, especially female dogs.

Usage notes

• Use in the singular may connote fortitude, bravery or acting like a grown-up, but it may also connote vulgarity or subservience due to the meaning “maid”. These connotations are much weaker in the plural, which can be used neutrally with little regard for context.
• Use for adult women (and to a lesser degree for older adolescent girls) is often considered patronising, which is especially true of the diminutives.
• The diminutive meidje is uncommon; the regular diminutive is meisje along with its variants meiske and meisie.

Derived terms

• dienstmeid
• huismeid
• keukenmeid
• meis
• meisje

Anagrams

• idem

Middle English

Noun

meid

1. Alternative form of mede (“reward”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

meid m (definite singular meiden, indefinite plural meidar, definite plural meidane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1901; superseded by mei

Veps

Pronoun

meid

1. partitive of mö