люд

From Old East Slavic людиѥ (ljudije) and Old Church Slavonic людиє (ljudie), from Proto-Slavic *ljudъ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“men, people”). Cognate with Lithuanian liaudis (“people”), Latvian ļaudis (“people”), German Leute (“people”), Ancient Greek ἐλεύθερος (eleútheros), Latin līber, līberī.

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люд • (ljud) m inan (genitive лю́да, uncountable) (collective noun, no plural)

1. people, folk

   ме́лкий городско́й люд ― mélkij gorodskój ljud ― the petty townfolk

   крестья́нский люд ― krestʹjánskij ljud ― peasant folk, country folk

The word люд, which is a collective noun, is a separate word from люди.

• рабо́чий лю́д (rabóčij ljúd)

• лю́ди (ljúdi)