Meaning

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)

Leut

alternative form of Leute

Frequency

A1
Dialects

Fribourg

Fribourg

lüt

Graubünden

Graubünden

lüt

Zürich

Zürich

lüt

Graubünden

Graubünden

lüüt

Lucerne

Lucerne

lüt

Appenzell Innerrhoden

Appenzell Innerrhoden

lüt

Zürich

Zürich

lüüt

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

lüüt

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

lyt

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlɔʏ̯tə/
Etymology

In summary

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.

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