"The Frankish warriors, but particularly the leaders, were
called 'leudes,' from the Teutonic word 'leude,' 'liude,'
'leute,' people, as some think (Thierry, Lettres sur l'Hist.
de Franc, p. 130). In the Scandinavian dialects, 'lide' means
a warrior … ; and in the Kymric also 'lwydd' means an army
or war-band. … It was not a title of dignity, as every free
fighter among the Franks was a leud, but in process of time
the term seems to have been restricted to the most prominent
and powerful warriors alone."
_P. Godwin,
History of France: Ancient Gaul,
book 3, chapter 12, foot-note._
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LEUGA, The.
"The roads in the whole Roman empire were measured and marked
according to the unit of the Roman mile (1.48 kilometer), and
up to the end of the second century this applied also to those
[the Gallic] provinces. But from Severus onward its place was
taken in the three Gauls and the two Germanies by a mile
correlated no doubt to the Roman, but yet different and with a
Gallic name, the 'leuga' (2.222 kilomètres), equal to one and
a half Roman miles. … The double 'leuga,' the German
'rasta,' … corresponds to the French 'lieue.'"
_T. Mommsen,
History of the Romans,
book 8, chapter 3._