Deitsch

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Hunsrik

Alternative forms

  • taytx (Wiesemann spelling system)

Etymology

From Middle High German diutsc, from Old High German diutisc, diutisk (“popular, vernacular”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of the people, popular”), an adjective from *þeudō (“people”) (compare Old English þēod), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. Cognate with German Deutsch.

Pronunciation

Noun

Deitsch n

  1. German (language)
    Sprechst-du Deitsch?
    Do you speak German?
    • 2008 January 2, Noemia Assmann, “Erinerung An Friirixe Xuul Tsayte [Memory of old school times]”, in Ursula Wiesemann, Contribuição ao desenvolvimento de uma ortografia da língua Hunsrik falada na América do Sul.‎ (overall work in Portuguese), Cuiabá: SIL Brasil, page 35:
      In te tswët wëlt kriich, wi tas taytxe ferpoot waa […]
      In the Second World War, when German was forbidden.
  2. Hunsrik (language) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

References

  • Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Deitsch”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 33, column 1

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German diutsc, from Old High German diutisc, diutisk (“popular, vernacular”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of the people, popular”), an adjective from *þeudō (“people”) (compare Old English þēod), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. Cognate with German Deutsch.

Proper noun

Deitsch

  1. the German or Pennsylvania German language
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