Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A Frankish vassal or tenant in the Early Middle Ages.
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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