Luucht
Luxembourgish
Alternative forms
- Lut (chiefly southern dialects)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /luːχt/
- Rhymes: -uːχt
Etymology 1
From northern Old High German luht, a variant of luft with the northern West Germanic development -ft- → -cht-, which in Luxembourgish survives only in a small number of relict words (compare uechter). Cognate with Dutch lucht and German Luft, from which Luxembourgish Loft (“air as a gas; current of air”).
Noun
Luucht f (uncountable)
- air, space, sky (the apparently open space above the ground of the earth)
- D'Vulle fléien an der Luucht. — “The birds are flying in the air.”
Etymology 2
From Middle High German lūchte, a variant of liuhte, from Old High German liuhta, *lūhta. Cognate with German Leuchte. For the vocalism compare liicht.
Noun
Luucht f (plural Luuchten)
- lamp
- traffic light
- light
Synonyms
- (light): Liicht (more common)