Leute
German (Berlin)
/ˈlɔʏ̯tə/
noun
Definitions
- people several individual persons, a group of people in general, esp. of one kind or another, folk (folks), peeps slang, guys (boys and/or girls)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German liute inherited from Old High German liuti (people, subordinates) inherited from Proto-Germanic *liudīz, *liudiz (people) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (people, men, man, grow), *h₁lewdʰ- (people, men, man, grow).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁lewdʰ-
Gloss
people, men, man, grow
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
民
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- delibration English
- lede English
- leod English
- liberform English
- libro- English
- liuta Finnish
- -ellus Latin
- Liber Latin
- Lullus Latin
- delibro Latin
- libellus Latin
- liber Latin
- liberalis, līberālis Latin
- librarium Latin
- librarius Latin
- libriger Latin
- līber Latin
- līber, liber, līberum Latin
- Feuerwehr German
- Feuerwehrleute German
- Format German
- Geschäft German
- Geschäftsleute German
- Leutseligkeit German
- leutselig German
- selig German
- libercolo Italian
- libretto Italian
- libro Italian
- gelui Dutch, Flemish
- gijlieden Dutch, Flemish
- hunlieden Dutch, Flemish
- inluiden Dutch, Flemish
- lieden Dutch, Flemish
- luiden Dutch, Flemish
- libre French
- libro- French
- люди Russian
- libre Spanish, Castilian
- libro Spanish, Castilian
- ἐλεύθερος Ancient Greek
- ἔπηλυς Ancient Greek
- *h₁lewdʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁lewdʰ-er-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁lewdʰ-er-tos Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁ludʰét Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁léwdʰ-or-teh₂-t-s Proto-Indo-European
- *Liudiharjaz Proto-Germanic
- *leudaną Proto-Germanic
- *liudiz Proto-Germanic
- *liudīz, *liudiz Proto-Germanic
- lēode Old English
- रोपण Sanskrit
- lede Middle English
- leed Middle English
- leod Middle English
- loðinn Old Norse
- lýðr Old Norse
- *ľudina Proto-Slavic
- *ľudъ Proto-Slavic
- *ľudьje Proto-Slavic
- libre Old French
- Llull Catalan, Valencian
- lýðnet Icelandic
- lýður Icelandic
- lýðveldi Icelandic
- liber Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- liede Middle Dutch
- luden Middle Dutch
- liut Old High German
- liuti Old High German
- darbaļaudis Latvian
- darbļaudis Latvian
- ļaudis Latvian
- libro Ido
- lebor Old Irish
- lýð- Faroese
- liute Middle High German
- Leit Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- libër Albanian
- לײַט Yiddish
- לײַטיש Yiddish
- לודים Hebrew (modern)
- lüde Middle Low German
- liudi Old Saxon
- Lüüte Alemannic German
- liaudis Lithuanian
- Lüüd German Low German
- libro Old Spanish
- *(a)lei- Proto-Albanian
- *laudnja Proto-Albanian
- *lèud-no Proto-Albanian
- liburu Basque
- *ljaudis Proto-Balto-Slavic
- livre Bourguignon
- libberu Sardinian
- leîbaro Istriot
- loeber Old Latin
- libro Mirandese
- live Picard
- *lut- Proto-Tocharian