Leit
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Bavarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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), Russian люди (ljudi), Bulgarian люде (ljude).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Leit pl (diminutive Leidln)
- people (several individual persons, a group of people in general)
- De Leit san deppert. ― People are stupid.
- folks, relatives, family, kinship
- Wo sand'n deine Leit heid? ― Where's your folks today?
East Central German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]Leit f
Further reading
[edit]2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80:
Hunsrik
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Leit ?
Further reading
[edit]Luxembourgish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old High German liut, Proto-Germanic *liudiz. Cognate with German Leute, Dutch lieden, (obsolete) English leod.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Leit pl (plural only)
- people
- Vill Leit huele sech keng Zäit, fir owes ze kachen.
- Many people don’t take the time to cook supper.
Derived terms
[edit]Pennsylvania German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare German Leute, Dutch lieden, Old English lēod.
Noun
[edit]Leit
- (in the plural) people
- Viel Leit wolle es net esse, awwer ich fer schurr.
- Many people don't want to eat it, but I do for sure.
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- Bavarian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Bavarian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁lewdʰ-
- Bavarian terms inherited from Middle High German
- Bavarian terms derived from Middle High German
- Bavarian terms inherited from Old High German
- Bavarian terms derived from Old High German
- Bavarian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Bavarian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Bavarian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Bavarian terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Bavarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Bavarian lemmas
- Bavarian nouns
- Bavarian pluralia tantum
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- East Central German nouns
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- Erzgebirgisch
- Hunsrik 1-syllable words
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- Hunsrik nouns
- Luxembourgish terms inherited from Old High German
- Luxembourgish terms derived from Old High German
- Luxembourgish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Luxembourgish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Luxembourgish 1-syllable words
- Luxembourgish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Luxembourgish unknown gender nouns
- Luxembourgish pluralia tantum
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