köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cidadão. By surface analysis, cidade (“city”) + -ão (“-an”). Compare Galician cidadán and Spanish ciudadano.
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