leud
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Definition of leud
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(historical)A Frankish vassal or tenant in the Early Middle Ages.
“The authority belonged, at one and the same time, to assemblies of free men, to landholders over the dwellers on their domains, and to the king over the leudes and their following.”
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Etymology
1750, from Medieval Latin leudēs pl (“vassals or followers of the king”), from Frankish *liudi (“people”), from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰis (“man, people”). Cognate with Old High German liuti (“people, subordinates”) (modern German Leute), Gothic *𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸𐍃 (*liuþs), Old English lēod (“chief, man”). Doublet of lede.
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