Leiden

• Leyden (archaic)

Borrowed from Dutch Leiden (for further etymology see there).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪdən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪdən/
• Rhymes: -aɪdən, -eɪdən

Leiden

1. A city in South Holland, Netherlands, on the Old Rhine, seat of a famous Dutch university.

• Leyden jar

• Deline, deline, liened, neleid

From Middle Dutch Leiden, older Leithen, originally the name of the village now called Leiderdorp, then transferred to the younger nearby settlement. Formerly hypothesized to be from Middle Dutch lēde (“dyke, drainage channel”), but this is derived from the past stem *lid- of Proto-Germanic *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 Frankish *Lagiþon, from Proto-Germanic *laguz (“water”) + the placename suffix *-iþi.

The usual latinisation 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.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛi̯.də(n)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛi̯.ə/ (locally; traditional, now sometimes affected)

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• Hyphenation: Lei‧den
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯dən
• Homophones: leiden, lijden

Leiden n

1. Leiden (a city and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands)

   Synonym: Sleutelstad (nickname)

   • 2013, “Lalala Leiden”‎^[1]performed by Jochem Myjer:

     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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “Leiden”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎^[2] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪ̯dən/, [ˈlaɪ̯dn̩]

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Gerund of leiden (“to bear, to endure, to suffer”), a cognate of English lithe.

Leiden n (strong, genitive Leidens, plural Leiden)

1. suffering, pain, grief
2. disease

• Leidenschaft

• Kummer m
• Kümmernis f
• Sorge f
• Trauer f
• Traurigkeit f

Borrowed from Dutch Leiden.

Leiden n (proper noun, genitive Leidens or (optionally with an article) Leiden)

1. Leiden (a city in South Holland, Netherlands)

• Leidener

• “Leiden” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Old Dutch *Lagiþon, of Germanic origin, from a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *lagu (“water”).^[1] Not related to Lugdunum, which it is sometimes erroneously connected to.

Leiden

1. Leiden (a city in the modern Netherlands)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: Leiden

• “Leiden (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

• Leida

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Leiden.

Leiden ?

1. Leiden (a city in South Holland, Netherlands)

• garrafa de Leyden