köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic родъ (rodŭ), from Proto-Slavic *rodъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *radás. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”), whence English root. Cognates include Latvian rads, Ukrainian рід (rid) and Polish ród amongst others.
köken: From Middle Chinese compound 人民 (MC nyin mjin). Compare modern Mandarin 人民 (rénmín), Wu 人民 (⁶zen-min₆), Min Nan 人民 (jîn-bîn). Formerly pronounced with a consistent 呉音 (goon) reading of ninmin, later changing to a mixed 漢音 (kan'on) / 呉音 (goon) reading of jinmin.
aile: 人民委員: commissar, 人民委員会: commissariat, 人民解放軍: the People's Liberation Army, 人民憲章: the People's Charter, 人民公社: a people's commune, 人民裁判: a people's court, 人民主義: populism, 人民主権, 人民戦線: a popular front, 人民大会堂: the Great Hall of the People
people (collectively, as members of society) · humanity; humans (as a collective); humankind; the human race
eş: 一般人, 世人, 世間人, 世间人, 人士, 人群
köken: Attestable in pre-Qin texts as a term meaning "common people". Modern sense first attested in An English and Chinese dictionary published in 1884 by W. Lobscheid.
kinsmen; relatives · race; nation; people (generally referring to Koreans)
eş: 민족
köken: First attested in the Samgang haengsildo (三綱行實圖 / 삼강행실도), 1481, as Middle Korean 결에 (Yale: kyelGey), equivalent to 겯— (gyeot-, “to plait”) + —에 (-e). The sense of "nation-state" was a late nineteenth-century innovation inspired by the nationalistic desire of the Western term "nation".
köken: Borrowed from Arabic عَوَامّ (ʕawāmm), the plural of عَامَّة (ʕāmma, “majority”) (compare आम (ām) from عَامّ (ʕāmm)). Compare Punjabi ਅਵਾਮ (avām).
tribe · a traditional historical and cultural subgroup of Finnic peoples (often within what is now considered the Finnish people); best translated as nation · family
çekim: çoğul heimot · tamlayan heimon
köken: From Proto-Finnic *haimo (compare Estonian hõim), borrowed from Proto-Baltic *šáimas (compare Latvian saime), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos, *tḱóymos.