Leute
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle High German liute, from Old High German liuti, also liudi, from Proto-West Germanic *liud(i), from Proto-Germanic *liudīz (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“man, people”).
Compare Dutch lieden, luden, luiden, Old Norse lýðir (“people”) (whence Icelandic lýður), Old Saxon liudi, Old English lēode (“people”), English lede (“people”), Gothic *𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸𐍃 (*liuþs), Polish ludzie, Serbo-Croatian ljȗdi, Slovene ljudjẹ̑, Bulgarian люде (ljude), Russian люди (ljudi). More at leod and Proto-Slavic *ľudьje.
Leute pl (plural only, diminutive Leutchen n or Leutlein n)
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