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Leiden
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leiden
English
Alternative forms
en Leyden archaic
Etymology
en nl Leiden (for further etymology see there).
Pronunciation
en /ˈlaɪdən/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Leiden.wav Southern England
en /ˈleɪdən/ US
en aɪdən eɪdən 2
Proper noun
en city p/South Holland c/Netherlands on the Old Rhine, seat of a famous Dutch university.
Derived terms
en Leidenite Leyden jar
Translations
city in South Holland
Afrikaans: af Leiden
Albanian: sq Leida f, sq Lejden m
Amharic: am ለይድን m
Arabic: ar لَايْدَن m, ar لَيْدَن m
Armenian: hy Լեյդեն
Azerbaijani: az Leyden
Belarusian: be Ле́йдэн m
Bengali: bn লাইডেন
Breton: br Leiden m
Bulgarian: bg Лайден m
Catalan: ca Leiden, ca Leida f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 萊頓 Láidùn, cmn 來登 Láidēng
Corsican: co Leida f
Dutch: nl Leiden n
Esperanto: eo Lejdeno
Finnish: fi Leiden
Franco-Provençal: frp Lêda f
French: fr Leyde f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Leien n, fy Leie n
Georgian: ka ლეიდენი
German: de Leiden n
Greek: el Λέιντεν n
Hebrew: he לֶיּדֶן / he ליידן m Léyden
Hindi: hi लेइडन
Hungarian: hu Leiden
Italian: it Leida f
Japanese: ja ライデン Raiden, ja レイデン Reiden
Korean: ko ^레이던, ko ^라이덴
Latin: la Matilo, la Leida f, la Lugdunum Batavorum n
Latvian: lv Leidene f
Limburgish: li Leie n
Lithuanian: lt Leidenas m
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: nds-nl Leidn n
Macedonian: mk Лајден m
Occitan: oc Lèida f
Persian: fa لَیدن laydan
Picard: pcd Leyde
Polish: pl Lejda f
Portuguese: pt Leiden f, pt Leida f
Russian: ru Ле́йден m
Sardinian: sc Leida f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Лајден m
Latin: sh Lajden m
Sicilian: scn Leida f
Spanish: es Leiden f, es Leyden f
Tamil: ta லைடன்
Thai: th ไลเดิน lai-dəən
Ukrainian: uk Ле́йден m
Urdu: ur لائڈن m Lāyḍan
Uzbek: uz Leyden
Yiddish: yi ליידן n
Anagrams
en deeiln Deline deline liened neleid
Dutch
nl:
Etymology
From nl dum Leiden, older dum Leithen, originally the name of the village now called nl Leiderdorp, then transferred to the younger nearby settlement. Formerly hypothesized to be from dum lēde dyke, drainage channel, but this is derived from the past stem gem-pro *lid- of nl gem-pro *līþaną to pass through, thus requiring an original -d-, not -þ- (see Grammatischer Wechsel). The early ei-spelling also speaks against this derivation. Instead probably from a nl frk *Lagiþon, from gem-pro *laguz water + the placename suffix gem-pro *-iþi.
The usual latinisation nl Lugdunum was taken from the name of a defunct historical settlement north of Katwijk, which was erroneously identified with Leiden. There is in all likelihood no relation between the two names.leiden2
Pronunciation
nl /ˈlɛi̯.də(n)/
nl /ˈlɛi̯.ə/ locally; traditional, now sometimes affected
nl Nl-Leiden.ogg
nl Lei den
nl ɛi̯dən 2
nl leiden lijden
Proper noun
n
nl Leiden city/and/municipality p/South Holland c/Netherlands
nl Sleutelstad<qq:nickname>
nl 2013 Lalala Leiden w:nl:Jochem Myjer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXM2wykRexM Dat is mijn stadje, dat is mijn Leiden, / De plek waar mijn wieg aan de Rijn heeft gestaan. / Lalala Leiden, lalala Leiden, / De stad waar ik nooit meer weg wil gaan. That's my town, that's my Leiden, / The place where my cradle stood by the Rhine. / Lalala Leiden, lalala Leiden, / The city I never want to leave.
Derived terms
nl Leidenaar Leids Leidse Leiderdorp Leidschendam Leidsche Rijn Leidsebuurt
References
leiden
German
Pronunciation
de /ˈlaɪ̯dən/ [ˈlaɪ̯dn̩]
de De-at-Leiden.ogg Austria
de De-Leiden.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Etymology 1
Gerund of de leiden to bear, to endure, to suffer, a cognate of en lithe.
Noun
n
suffering, pain, grief
disease
Declension
n
Derived terms
de Leidenschaft
See also
de Kummer m
de Kümmernis f
de Sorge f
de Trauer f
de Traurigkeit f
Etymology 2
de:+
de nl Leiden.
Proper noun
toponym
de city p/South Holland c/Netherlands Leiden
Derived terms
de Leidener
Further reading
de heteronyms
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From dum odt *Lagiþon, of dum gem - origin, from a derivative of dum gmw-pro *lagu water.leiden2 Not related to la Lugdunum, which it is sometimes erroneously connected to.
Proper noun
dum proper noun
dum Leiden city in the modern c/Netherlands
Inflection
dum noun
Descendants
nl Leiden
References
Further reading
ID59623 I
Portuguese
Alternative forms
pt Leida
Etymology
pt :ubor nl:Leiden + 1
Proper noun
pt city p/South Holland c/Netherlands Leiden
Derived terms
pt garrafa de Leyden