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▪ I. † thede Obs.
Forms: 1 þiod, 1–3 þeod, 2 þiode, 2–4 þeode, þede, 4–5 thede, (4 þedd, 5 Sc. theid).
[OE. þíod, þéod = OS. thioda, thiod, OFris. thiade, OHG. diota, MHG. diet, ON. þióð, Goth. þiuda:—OTeut. *þeuđô, by Verner's Law:—Indo-Eur. *teutā́- fem.; cf. Lith. tautà, OIr. túath, Osc. touto, Sabine touta people.]
1. A people, race, nation.
855O.E. Chron. an. 627 Her Edwine kyning wæs ᵹefulwad mid his þeode on Eastron. a1000Hymns viii. 9 (Gr.) We þe..þanciað, þioda waldend. c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xxi. 10 Þeod arist aᵹen þeode. a1175Cott. Hom. 237 Þurh false godes þe ælc þiode ham selfe macede. c1175Lamb. Hom. 115 Wa þere þeode þer þe king bið child. c1200Ormin 3438 Tatt þeod wass hæþene þeod. Ibid. 16057 To spekenn wel Wiþþ alle þede spæchess. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2302 Quene he comen in vnkinde ðeden. a1300Cursor M. 4177 (Cott.) Marchands of an vncuth thede. c1400Melayne 1008 The chefe of hethyn thede.
b. pl. (biblical.) The nations, the Gentiles.
c975Rushw. Gosp. Matt. x. 18 To kyningum & ᵹeroefum ᵹe bioþ ᵹelædde..in cyþnisse [h]eora & þeodum. c1000ælfric Hom. I. 96 Se þeoda lareow Paulus. a1175Cott. Hom. 241 Ur hlaford sanctes paulus þe is þeoden lareaw.
2. The district occupied by a people; a country.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxv. §7 An hearpere wæs on ðære ðiode ðæt Ðracia hatte. a1300Cursor M. 5792 (Cott.), I sal þam bring..In-till a land, a wonsun thede. 13..K. Alis. (Bodl. MS.) 7947 Þou shalt haue Perce, & Mede, And Babiloyne, þis riche þede. a1400–50Alexander 1803 In thorps & in many thede þar ȝe þurȝe ride. c1470Golagros & Gaw. 174 All the wyis and welth he weildis in theid.
3. Comb., as thede-folk (OE. *þéod-folc), people of a country, natives. (The OE. combinations and derivatives were very numerous.)
c725Charter of Nunna in Birch Cart. Sax. I. 211 On ðeodweᵹ norð ofer þone weᵹ. a1000Boeth. Metr. xxix. 92 Þæt hi þiowien swilcum þiodfruman. c1205Lay. 26494 Þusende of þan þeod-folke.
▪ II. thede
obs. form of thead. |