Luucht

Luxembourgish

Alternative forms

• Lut (chiefly southern dialects)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luːχt/
• Rhymes: -uːχt

Etymology 1

From Middle High German lucht, 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 Griecht, uechter), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *luftu.

Cognate with Dutch lucht and German Luft. Doublet of Loft (“air as a gas; current of air”).

Noun

Luucht f (uncountable)

1. 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)

1. lamp
2. traffic light
3. light

Synonyms

• (light): Liicht (more common)