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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ľudъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ljaudis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰis. Cognates include Lithuanian liáudis f, Latvian ļàudis m (pl.), Old High German liut m, German Leute, Ancient Greek ἐλεύθερος (eleútheros, free), Latin līber (free).

Noun

*ľȗdъ m [1]

  1. people

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: люд (ljud) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Latin: ljud (dialectal)
    • Slovene: ljȗd (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: ľud
    • Old Polish: lud
    • Slovak: ľud
    • Slovincian: lʉ̇́d
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: lud
      • Lower Sorbian: lud

Further reading

References

    • Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ļȗdъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 282: “m. o (c) ‘people’”
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