luft
English edit
Etymology edit
From German Luft (“air”). Doublet of lift and loft.
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luft (uncountable)
Czech edit
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luft m inan
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Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German luft, lucht (“air, smell”), from Old Saxon luft, from Proto-West Germanic *luftu. Probably influenced by German Luft (“air”). It is a cognate of Danish loft (“attic”) and Danish lugt (“smell”).
Pronunciation edit
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luft c (definite singular luften) (uncountable)
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Faroese edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German lucht, from Old Saxon luft, from Proto-West Germanic *luftu.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
luft f (genitive singular luftar, uncountable)
Declension edit
Declension of luft (singular only) | ||
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f2s | singular | |
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | luft | luftin |
accusative | luft | luftina |
dative | luft | luftini |
genitive | luftar | luftarinnar |
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Middle English edit
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Etymology edit
From Old English lyft (“air, atmosphere, firmament”), from Proto-West Germanic *luftu, from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, upper region”). More at lift. Doublet of lofte.
Noun edit
lüft
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
luft f or m (definite singular lufta or luften, uncountable)
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- fjelluft, fjell-luft
- friluft
- luftangrep
- luftboble
- luftbåren
- luftdyktig
- luftfart
- luftfartøy
- luftfilter
- luftforurensning
- luftfoto
- luftfuktighet
- luftfylt
- lufthavn
- luftig
- luftinntak
- luftkondisjonering
- luftmasse
- luftmotstand
- luftrenser
- luftrom
- luftrør
- luftsirkulasjon
- luftskip
- luftslange
- luftstrøm
- luftstøtte
- lufttemperatur
- lufttett
- lufttrykk
- luftvei
- varmluft
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German lucht.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
luft f (definite singular lufta, uncountable)
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References edit
- “luft” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *luftu, from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, upper region”).
Noun edit
luft
Descendants edit
- North Frisian: loft (“the sky”)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Luft. Doublet of lift and loft.
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Noun edit
luft m inan (diminutive lufcik)
- (archaic, architecture) pipe in a stove, chimney, or kitchen that carries away smoke
- (colloquial, Poznań) air
- Synonym: powietrze
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- luftować impf
Further reading edit
Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English luft, lufte, from Old English lyft (“the lower sky (as opposed to the upper atmosphere, or heavens), air, atmosphere”), from Proto-West Germanic *luftu, from Proto-Germanic *luftuz.
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luft (uncountable)
- Alternative form of lift
- 1898, David Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots (in English), page 437:
- Bothwell told Sir James Melville that he saw the strangest accident that ever chancit, to wit the powder cam out of the luft [i.e. the sky], and had brunt the Kingis house, and himself found lying dead a litle distance from the house under a tre;
- 1977, Douglas Young, Clara Young, David D. Murison, A Clear Voice: Douglas Young, Poet and Polymath (in English), page 39:
- Gesserant sails on a skinklan frith, gowd-yalla luft and blue o the sea
- 1996, Review of Scottish Culture - Issues 10-12 (in English), page 101:
- […] kind of phonetic spelling which resembles Elphinston's recommendations for an orthographic reform as issued in the eighteenth century, so his proverbs and sayings have to be practically translated: Gin dhe luft wuz tay faw, dhe laivruks wud bee smuird – if the sky were to fall, the larks would be smothered.
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
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lȕft m (Cyrillic spelling лу̏фт)
References edit
- “luft” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Silesian edit
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luft m inan
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audio (file)
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luft c
- air
- att andas luft
- to breathe air
- uppe i luften
- up in the air
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Declension of luft | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | luft | luften | — | — |
Genitive | lufts | luftens | — | — |
Derived terms edit
- flyga i luften (“to explode, to blow up”)
- bygga luftslott (“to build castles in the air”)
- frilufts-
- luftherravälde
- lufthunger
- luftmotstånd
- luftskepp
- luftslott
- luftvärn
- luftöverlägsenhet
- tagen ur luften (“made up”, literally “taken out of the air”)
Related terms edit
References edit
- luft in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- luft in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- luft in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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