ljudi
Serbo-Croatian
/ʎûːdi/
noun
Definitions
- people, men
- (colloquial) guys, you guys (group of familiar people of any or mixed gender)
- (vocative) everybody, everyone (addressing a group of people)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ľudьje (men, people) inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ljaudis (men, people).
Origin
Proto-Balto-Slavic
*ljaudis
Gloss
men, people
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
- люди Russian
- *h₁lewdʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁lewdʰis, *h₁lewdʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- ludzie Polish
- *čьlověkъ Proto-Slavic
- *ľudьje Proto-Slavic
- lidi Czech
- lidé Czech
- људи Serbo-Croatian
- ļaudis Latvian
- люди Ukrainian
- ľudia Slovak
- людзі Belarusian
- людиѥ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- *ljaudis Proto-Balto-Slavic
- ljud Molise Croatian