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)
çekim: çoğul Leuten
köken: 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,…
Gleich den andern Tag schicketen wir zween Leute mit der Post fort:
one, you, they, everyone; humanity, (the) people, the public opinion
köken: From Middle Dutch men, an unstressed variety of man (“man”). Accordingly, originally pronounced with [ə]; now predominantly with a full vowel [ɛ], a spelling pronunciation common especially in those areas where the word is chiefly literary. Compare German man, Low German men, Middle English men (indefinite pronoun).
köken: Reduplication of 人(ひと) (hito, “person, human”) to explicitly emphasize plurality. The second character is replaced with the 々 symbol, the Japanese ditto mark to show duplication of the preceding character. The hito changes to bito as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰis Proto-Balto-Slavic *ljáudis Proto-Balto-Slavic *ljaudejes Proto-Slavic *ľȗdьje Old Polish ludzie Polish ludzie Inherited from Old Polish ludzie.
köken: Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit लोक (loká), via Old Hindi लोग (loga). Use as a plural marker in some dialects is probably generalization of हम लोग (ham log, “us”).