Lide

//laɪd// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    March (third month of the Gregorian calendar) dialectal, obsolete, uncountable

    ""Eat Leekes in Lide, and Ramsins in May, / And all the yeare after Physitians may play.""

  2. 2
    A surname.

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""Eat Leekes in Lide, and Ramsins in May, / And all the yeare after Physitians may play.""

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English Lyde, from Old English hlȳda, from hlȳdan (“to make noise”) + -a (agentive suffix), literally “noise-maker”; thus the only Germanic month name to survive in Modern English. Compare loud, and more distantly listen, slave.

Etymology 2

From the German surname, possibly Americanized from Leid.

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