Re: How much foreign language did opera teach you?


Edward A. Cowan schrieb:

e.g., Russian "lyudi" ("people") seems derived from
the Middle High German form of German "Leute" ("liuti")).

Actually both words have a common Indo European origin. "lyudi" is
present in all Slavic languages( Czech: lide, Slovak: l'udia, Polish:
ludzie, Serbo-Croatian: ljudi) and come from the Old Church Slavonic
"lyud" which means "people" (in the singular), a meaning which is still
present in the Czech "lid" and Slovak "l'ud".
The same root is present in the Baltic languages (Lithuanian and
Latvian) and can be put in relation to the Old Saxon "liodan" which
means "to grow".

th.

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