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luft

See also: Luft, lüft, and ľuft

English

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Etymology

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From German Luft (“air”). Doublet of lift and loft.

Noun

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luft (uncountable)

  1. (chess) A piece moved in front of a king to prevent a back-rank mate.

Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Luft.

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Noun

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luft m inan

  1. (informal) air
    Synonym: vzduch

Declension

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Declension of luft (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative luft lufty
genitive luftu luftů
dative luftu luftům
accusative luft lufty
vocative lufte lufty
locative luftě, luftu luftech
instrumental luftem lufty

Further reading

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  • “luft”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “luft”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

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Etymology

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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”).

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luft c (definite singular luften) (uncountable)

  1. air

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Faroese

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German lucht, from Old Saxon luft, from Proto-West Germanic *luftu.

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luft f (genitive singular luftar, uncountable)

  1. air
  2. atmosphere, sky

Declension

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Declension of luft (singular only)
f2s singular
indefinite definite
nominative luft luftin
accusative luft luftina
dative luft luftini
genitive luftar luftarinnar
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Middle English

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Etymology

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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

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lüft

  1. air
  2. atmosphere
  3. heavens, sky, firmament

Descendants

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  • English: lift (“the sky, atmosphere”)
  • Scots: lift, luft

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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luft f or m (definite singular lufta or luften, uncountable)

  1. air

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German lucht.

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luft f (definite singular lufta, uncountable)

  1. air

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Old Frisian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *luftu, from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, upper region”).

Noun

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luft

  1. air
  2. the sky

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  • North Frisian: loft (“the sky”)

Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Luft. Doublet of lift and loft.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈluft/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uft
  • Syllabification: luft

Noun

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luft m inan (diminutive lufcik)

  1. (archaic, architecture) pipe in a stove, chimney, or kitchen that carries away smoke
  2. (colloquial, Poznań) air
    Synonym: powietrze

Declension

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Declension of luft
singular
nominative luft
genitive luftu
dative luftowi
accusative luft
instrumental luftem
locative lufcie
vocative lufcie

Derived terms

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adjective
verb

Further reading

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  • luft in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • luft in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots

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Etymology

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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)

  1. 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

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Etymology

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From German Luft.

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lȕft m (Cyrillic spelling лу̏фт)

  1. (colloquial) air
    Synonyms: vàzdūh, zrȃk

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  • “luft”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Silesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Luft.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈluft/
  • Rhymes: -uft
  • Syllabification: luft

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luft m inan

  1. air
    Synonym: powietrze

Further reading

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  • luft in dykcjonorz.eu
  • luft in silling.org

Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowing from German Luft.

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luft c

  1. air
    att andas luft
    to breathe air
    uppe i luften
    up in the air

Declension

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Declension of luft
nominative genitive
singular indefinite luft lufts
definite luften luftens
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

Derived terms

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