luft

See also: Luft, lüft, and ľuft

English

Etymology

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

Noun

luft (uncountable)

(chess) Space made for a castled king to give it a flight square to prevent a back-rank mate.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Luft.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

Noun

luft m inan

(informal) air
Synonym: vzduch

Declension

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

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

luft

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

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

IPA^(key):

Noun

luft c (definite singular luften) (uncountable)

air

Derived terms

Faroese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

Noun

luft f (genitive singular luftar, uncountable)

air
atmosphere, sky

Declension

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

Related terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

lift(e), left(e), lüfte

Etymology

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

lüft

Descendants

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

luft

Wikipedia ^no

Noun

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

air

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

luft

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From Middle Low German lucht.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lʉft/

Noun

luft f (definite singular lufta, uncountable)

air

Derived terms

References

“luft” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

lufte

Etymology

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

Noun

luft

air
the sky

Descendants

North Frisian: loft (“the sky”)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Luft. Doublet of lift and loft.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

luft m inan (diminutive lufcik)

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

Declension

Declension of luft

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

Derived terms

adjective

do luftu

verb

luftować impf

Scots

Etymology

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.

Noun

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.