Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA way or path; a road. · A watercourse. · A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure. · A rich source of supply.
Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lād (“way, course, journey”) but by the 19th century survived only dialectally in the sense of “watercourse”, as a technical term in mining, and in the compounds lodestone, lodestar.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "doublet",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "load"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of load"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "lād",
"4": "",
"5": "way, course, journey"
},
"expansion": "Old English lād (“way, course, journey”)"
}
],
"links": [
[
"load",
"load#English"
],
[
"lād",
"lad#Old_English"
],
[
"lodestone",
"lodestone#English"
],
[
"lodestar",
"lodestar#English"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"word": "lód",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
]
}
],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"A way or path; a road.",
"A watercourse.",
"A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.",
"A rich source of supply."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"dialectal",
"broadly"
],
"recordId": "6d7c8ee498bcf94dc3a45087b96c224808c847b26fdfc8c5438a130050a0fd07",
"rawRecordSha256": "1bca851faae08c59430cae22f83256630857a1fa191531f73efa4fdd256fa0be",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 425381
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}