ljud

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian ljudi (“people”), with the singular back-formed from the plural.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʎuːd/, /juːd/

Noun

ljud m

1. man
   • 2010, Luigi Peca, La guerre à Acquaviva:

     Alora, kaka ja sa furnija hrani ovo, kaka sa džirivam naza, sa vidija dva ljuda, dva soldata velike naza mena.

     Well, when I had finished hiding it, as I’m making my way back, I saw two men, two big soldiers behind me.

Declension

    declension of ljud (anim series-1b masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	ljud	ljuda
genitive	ljuda	ljud, ljudi
dative	ljudu	ljudami, ljudi
accusative	ljud, ljuda	ljuda
locative	ljudu	ljuda
instrumental	ljudom, ljudam	ljudami, ljudi

References

• Ivica Peša Matracki and Nada Županović Filipin (2014), Changes in the System of Oblique Cases in Molise Croatian Dialect.
• Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).
• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish liuþ, from Old Norse hljóð, from Proto-Germanic *hleuþą. Cognate with Faroese ljóð, Norwegian lyd and ljod, Danish lyd, Icelandic hljóð, German Laut, Scots luid, Dutch luid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʉːd/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ʉːd

Noun

ljud n

1. (countable, uncountable) sound

Declension

Declension of ljud

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ljud	ljuds
	definite	ljudet	ljudets
plural	indefinite	ljud	ljuds
	definite	ljuden	ljudens

Related terms

• ljuda
• lyda
• ljudlig
• högljudd

Verb

ljud

1. imperative of ljuda

Further reading

• ljud in Svensk ordbok.