ļaudis – Latvian noun declension

Noun: ļaudis
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension:

Singular

Plural

Nominative	ļaudis
Accusative	ļaudis
Genitive	ļaužu
Dative	ļaudīm
Instrumental	ļaudīm
Locative	ļaudīs
Vocative	ļaudis

Sample Sentences

gudri ļaudis (smart, intelligent people)
veci ļaudis (old people)
liels ļaužu pulks (big crowd (lit. crowd of people))
ļaužu straume (a stream of people)
ļaužu pilns laukums (an area full of people)
lauku ļaudis (rural people)
rūpnīcas ļaudis (factory people)
kaimiņu ļaudis (neighboring people)
darba ļaudis, darbaļaudis, darbļaudis (working people, workers)

Nouns inflected like ļaudis

ļaudis, darbaļaudis, darba ļaudis, darbļaudis,

Etymology

1. From Proto-Baltic *ljáudi- [Proto-Balto-Slavic *ljáudis], from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰis (“people”).
2. Cognates include Lithuanian liáudis (“people, nation”), Old Prussian ludis (“owner, landlord”), ludini (“owner, landlady”), ludysz (“person”), Old Church Slavonic людиє (ljudije, “people”), людинъ (ljudinŭ, “free man”), Russian лю́ди (ljúdi, “people”), Bulgarian лю́де (ljúde), Czech lidé, Slovak ľudia, Polish ludzie, Gothic *𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸𐍃 (*liuþs, “man”), Old High German liotan (“to grow”), liut, liuti (“people”), German Leute, Ancient Greek ἐλεύθερος (eleútheros, “free”) (< *h₁léwdʰeros (“free man”)), Latin liber (“free”) (also < *h₁léwdʰeros). See: Slovak Nouns 'ľudia', German Nouns 'Leute', Latin Nouns 'liber'.