people · guys, lads (used to address a group of people)
çekim: çoğul gentes
köken: Latinizing modification of Old Spanish yente, inherited from Latin gentem.
aile: buena gente, común de las gentes, de gente a gente, derecho de gentes, don de gentes, gente bien, gente de paz, gente de pluma, gente del bronce, gente del trato
La gente suele encontrar algunas cosas muy motivadoras, y otras no.
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).
world · realm governed by a Buddha · space, universe
eş: 世, 區宇, 区宇, 四國, 四国, 四海
köken: Coined by Buddhist translators (c. 3rd century) to translate Sanskrit लोकधातु (lokadhātu, “world”). In its original Buddhist sense, the word encompassed a range of spatial meanings from a 小世界 (xiǎo shìjiè, “minor world”) with a single sun and moon to the billion-world 三千大千世界 (sānqiān-dàqiān-shìjiè, “trichiliocosm”). Its modern sense dates from Japanese 世(せ)界(かい) (sekai) re-adaptation of the word…
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: Inherited from Latin lūmen. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Slavic, which displaced the original meaning light. Compare Hungarian világ and Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ). Doublet of lumen.
aile: toată lumea, lumea a treia, în jurul lumii, acoperișul lumii
Hoinăream prin lume-n lung și-n lat / Până să găsesc un om ca tine
Când vezi că lumea te înjură, răspunde cu aceeași monedă!
a people, nation · a community of people · the people, public, crowd, host, multitude
çekim: çoğul populī · tamlayan populī
köken: From Old Latin populus (since mid-2nd c. BC), from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos (attested already since early 5th c. BC), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”), further origin unknown; perhaps from Etruscan or from the root of pleō (Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). See also plēbs, from the root of pleō.