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tauta

Pronunciation: [tàwta]

“tauta” is a Latvian word. Its 7 meanings in English:

noun

  1. people, nation (historically formed group of people, usually having a common culture, language, and territory)
  2. people's, popular, folk, national (that which is typical or traditional of a nation)
  3. people (group of inhabitants of a given area)
  4. popular, people's (that which was made by, is typical of, the people of a certain area; that which defends their interests)
  5. people (a large number of individuals; people in general)
  6. people (a group of individuals with some specific characteristic feature)
  7. people from another region, family group, village

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tawtā-, from Proto-Indo-European *towtā, an o-grade form of *tewtā-, *tewtéh₂ (“throng, multitude; people; land”), from the stem *tew- (“to swell”). This word had several meanings in its history, often still found in folk tales: “(group of) foreigners,” “strangers,” “enemy tribe,” etc. (Compare Proto-Slavic *ťȗďь). In the 17th century, ļaudis, not tauta, was used in the…

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