Lui
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Etymology 1


From loy, leuy. Cognate with the Old Norse adjective “exhausted”, the Latin noun and the Ancient Greek verb “I untie”.

Noun


lui (has no singular; diminutive (plural): luitjes)
  1. An alternative form of lieden (men, persons), which got a derogatory connotation; used to mean people considered as a number of individuals (cognate with Latin liber 'free'!) rather than a collective group
  2. in compounds, -lui and -lieden are used as the plural of -man
 
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