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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ľudъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms 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][2]

  1. people

Inflection

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Derived terms

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

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “люд”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*ľudъ/*ľudь/*ľuda/*ľudo/*ľudьje”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), issue 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 194
  • Šanskij, N. M. (2004), “люд”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ļȗdъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 282: “m. o (c) ‘people’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “ljudъ / ljudь ljuda”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 70, 171; RPT 97, 102)”
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