Leute

== German == === Alternative forms === Leut (colloquial or poetic) Leut' Leude (pronunciation spelling) === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈlɔɪ.tə/ [ˈlɔe̠.t(ʰ)ə], [ˈlɔe̠.də], [ˈlɔe̠.ɾə] Homophones: läute, Läute Hyphenation: Leu‧te Rhymes: -ɔʏ̯.tə === Noun === Leute pl (plural only, diminutive Leutchen n or Leutlein n) people (several individual persons, a group of people in general, esp. of one kind or another), folk (folks), peeps (slang), guys (boys and/or girls) ==== Usage notes ==== A backformed singular Leut (“person”) may be heard in colloquial speech. It is rare and usually humorous. ==== Declension ==== === Noun === Leute nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Leut === Further reading === “Leute”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Leute” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Leute” in Duden online Leute on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Leute”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891