Talk:liudi

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High German[edit]

  • Secondary sources mention "liuti" (e.g. www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Leute , www.dwds.de/wb/Leute ) which might mean that liudi doesn't exist or is rarer, inferior, northern.
  • Althochdeutsche, dem Anfange des 11ten Jahrhunderts angehörige Übersetzung und Erläuterung der von Boethius verfaßten 5 Bücher de consolatione philosophiae. Zum ersten Male herausgegeben von E. G. Graff (Berlin, 1837) has "líute" (with í, e) which might mean people.

-84.161.36.181 21:46, 23 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

The d-form does exist and isn't inferior (in the sense of mistaken or imprecise), but it is indeed northern and thus rarer. I'm moving it normalised OHG "liuti". 90.186.72.39 07:33, 14 June 2022 (UTC)Reply