Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/liudi

This Proto-West Germanic 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *liudiz.

Noun

*liudi m or f

(in the singular) man, person
(in the plural) men, people

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*liudi
Genitive	*liudī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*liudi	*liudī
Accusative	*liudi	*liudī
Genitive	*liudī	*liudijō
Dative	*liudī	liudim, liudijum
Instrumental	*liudī	liudim, liudijum

Related terms

*leudan

Descendants

Old English: lēode, lēod
- Middle English: lede, led, leed, leede, leyde, leod, leode, leude, lud, lude, lued, lyde, leoda, leodæ
  - English: lede (obsolete), leed
  - Scots: lede, leid, luid
Old Frisian: liōd, liūde, liōde m
- Saterland Frisian: Ljuude, Ljude
- West Frisian: lie, lju, ljuwe
Old Saxon: liud, liudi
- Middle Low German: lüde, luede, luide
  - Low German: Lüde
    - German Low German: Lühde pl, Lühd pl, Lüüde pl, Lüüd pl, Lüüt pl, Lüü pl
      - Westphalian:
        Paderbornisch: Luie pl
  - Plautdietsch: Lied
Old Dutch: liut, liudi
- Middle Dutch: liede
  - Dutch: lieden
→ Medieval Latin: leodēs, leudēs
- → French: leude
- → English: leud
Old High German: liut, liuti, liudī — northern
- Middle High German: liute
  - Alemannic German: Lüüte
  - Bavarian: Leit
  - Central Franconian: Löck, Lück (Kölsch, northernmost Ripuarian), Lüü (western Ripuarian), Lie (Siegerland), Leut, Lütt (parts of Eifel, former also northern Westerwald), Lekt (westernmost Eifel), Leit (most of Moselle Franconian)
  - German: Leute pl
  - Hunsrik: Leit
  - Luxembourgish: Leit
  - Vilamovian: łaojt
  - Yiddish: לײַט (layt)