The story
- Latin · derived fromlaudō, laudāre
- Old French · derived fromlauder
- Middle English · inherited fromlauden
- English todaylaud
Inherited from Middle English lauden, from Old French lauder, from Latin laudō, laudāre, from laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”), from echoic Proto-Indo-European root *leh₁wdʰ- (“song, sound”). Cognate with Old English lēoþ (“song, poem”), German Lied (“song”). Doublet of leed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.