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==Fula==

===Noun===
{{ff-noun|nde|laddeeji|ɗi}} ''Adamawa Plural'' ({{m|ff|laɗɗe}} {{m|ff|ɗe}})

# {{lb|ff|Pular|Adamawa}} [[forest]], [[brush]], [[nature]]

====See also====
* {{l|ff|buruure}}

===References===
* {{R:Bah 2014}}
* {{cite-book|fr|title=Dictionnaire peul de l'agriculture et de la nature (Diamaré, Cameroun), suivi d'un index français-fulfulde|last=Tourneux|first=Henry|last2=Daïrou|first2=Yaya|publisher=Karthala|year=1998|ISBN=2865378543|location=Paris|url=https://collaboratif.cirad.fr/alfresco/s/d/workspace/SpacesStore/1bdf94f6-8c47-44e0-9772-a8f0e886fb41/16976.pdf|accessdate=29 April 2023}}

==Middle English==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|enm|lad|ladd}}

===Etymology===
Probably from {{der|enm|gmq|-}}, possibly {{der|enm|non|ladd||hose, woolen stocking}}; according to Liberman, words for socks, shoes, and stockings were used pejoratively as nicknames for fools.  See also {{cog|sv|ladder||old shoes}}, {{m|sv|lodde||Frisian shoe}}, {{m|sv|lädder||socks}}, all said to be related to {{cog|non|loðinn||hairy, shaggy, woolly}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|enm|/ˈlad(ə)/}}

===Noun===
{{enm-noun|laddes|pl2=ladden}}

# A (male) [[servant]] or [[hireling]] {{gloss|usually of a noble}}
# A male [[commoner]]; a man with a low position in [[society]].
# A man of low [[morals]] or [[behaviour]] {{gloss|used [[derogatorily]]}}
# Any [[man]] (without qualification); an adult [[male]] [[human]] being.
# A [[lad]] or [[boy]]; a male [[human]] [[child]] {{gloss|including babies}}
# {{lb|enm|rare}} A [[infantryman]]; a fighter who isn't mounted.

====Descendants====
* {{desc|en|lad}}
* {{desc|sco|lad}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:MED Online|entry=ladde|part of speech=n.(1)  |id=MED24548 |accessdate=2019-04-29}}
* Liberman, Anatoly, Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology, University of Minnesota Press, 2008, p. 139

{{cln|enm|derogatory terms}}
{{C|enm|Babies|Children|Military|Occupations|Male people}}

==Norwegian Bokmål==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alt|nb|lada|ladet}}

===Verb===
{{head|nb|verb form}}

# {{inflection of|nb|lade||simple past}}
# {{inflection of|nb|la||simple past}} {{qualifier|Etymology 2}}