different between lend vs leod

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?nd, IPA^(key): /l?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology 1

From earlier len (with excrescent -d, as in sound, round, etc.), from Middle English lenen, lænen, from Old English l?nan (“to lend; give, grant, lease”), from Proto-West Germanic *laihnijan, from Proto-Germanic *laihnijan? (“to loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihn? (“loan”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyk?- (“to leave, leave over”).

Cognate with Scots len, lend (“to lend”), West Frisian liene (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Dutch lenen (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Swedish låna (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic lána (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic léna (“to grant”), Latin linqu? (“quit, leave, forlet”), Ancient Greek ????? (leíp?, “leave, release”). See also loan.

Verb

lend (third-person singular simple present lends, present participle lending, simple past and past participle lent)

1. (transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.

2. (intransitive) To make a loan.
3. (reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.

4. To afford; to grant or furnish in general.

   • Cato, lend me for a while thy patience.

   • 1886, John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney

     Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his compositions.

5. (proscribed) To borrow.

Antonyms

• borrow

Derived terms

• have a lend
• lender
• lend to believe

Translations

See also

• give back
• loan
• pay back

Etymology 2

From Middle English lende (usually in plural as lendes, leendes, lyndes), from Old English lendenu, lendinu pl (“loins”), from Proto-Germanic *landij?, *land?? (“loin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“loin, kidney”). Cognate with Scots lend, leynd (“the loins, flank, buttocks”), Dutch lendenen (“loins, reins”), German Lenden (“loins”), Swedish länder (“loins”), Icelandic lendar (“loins”), Latin lumbus (“loin”), Russian ??????? (ljádveja, “thigh, haunch”).

Alternative forms

• leynd, leind, lind (Scotland)
• lende (obsolete)

Noun

lend (plural lends or linder)

1. (anatomy, Britain dialectal) The lumbar region; loin.
2. (Britain dialectal, of a person or animal) The loins; flank; buttocks.

References

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

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *lenta, from Proto-Indo-European *lent (“linse”). Compare Latin lens, lentis, Old High German linsi.

Noun

lend f

1. acorn

Related terms

• lëndë

Estonian

Noun

lend (genitive lennu, partitive lendu)

1. flight

Declension

Derived terms

• lennujaam (“airport”)
• lennuõnnetus (“aviation accident”)

English

Alternative forms

• lede

Etymology

From Middle English leod (“people”), from Old English l?ode ("people, men"; plural of l?od (“person, man”)), from Proto-Germanic *liud?z (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?lewd?- (“man, people”). Cognate with Scots lede (“people”), West Frisian lie (“people”), Dutch lieden (“people”) and Dutch lui(den) (“people”), German Leute (“people”), Norwegian lyd (“people”), Polish lud (“people”), Russian ???? (ljudi, “people”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?d, l?-?d, IPA^(key): /li?d/
• Homophone: lead

Noun

leod (plural leod or leods)

1. (collectively, obsolete) People, folk.
2. (obsolete) A people, nation, people group.
3. (obsolete) A man, person.

Anagrams

• DOLE, Delo, Deol, Dole, Ledo, OLED, dole, lode, olde

Middle English

Alternative forms

• leed, leode

Etymology

From Old English l?od "people"

Noun

leod (plural ledes)

1. people
2. nation; a nation
3. a man
4. a serf or tenant

   lige leode ("feudal retainers") --Piers Plowman

Old English

Etymology

Closely related to l?ode and l?odan. From Proto-Germanic *liudiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?lewd?- (“men, people”). Cognates include Old High German liut, Old Norse lj?ðr, and West Frisian -lju; and, outside the Germanic languages, Lithuanian liáudis (“common people”), Proto-Slavic *?ud? (Russian ??? (ljud)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?o?d/

Noun

l?od m

1. man, chief, leader
2. (poetic) a prince
3. a fine for slaying a man, wergild

Declension

Derived terms

• ?el?od
• l?ods?eaþa

Noun

l?od f

1. a people, people group, nation

2. (in compounds) one's own people; home

3. Alternative form of l?ode

Declension

Derived terms

• l?oden