The base is *(h1)leudH- > Gmc. *liud-,
*liud-i- > OE le:od (f.), OS liud, OHG liut (m.), pl. liuti > Modern
German Leute. Gothic preserves the related verb <liudan> 'grow, increase'
= OE le:odan (*le:ad, ludon, -loden). Virtually identical nouns meaning
"folk, nation" or providing a suppletive plural ("people") for "person, man" are
also found in Slavic and Baltic (e.g. Polish pl. ludzie 'people' < sg.
collective *ljudIje < *leudH-ejo-m).
Piotr
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:55 PM
Subject: [tied] leudh- > Germanic > OE leode
What's the Germanic reconstructed form for OE leode
and another Germanic cognates (liud-,liot-, ljod-, etc)
???