Deitsch

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Hunsrik

Alternative forms

  • taytx (Wiesemann spelling)

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂
    Proto-Germanic *þeudō
    Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
    Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
    Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz
    Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk
    Old High German diutisk
    Middle High German diutsc
    Central Franconian dütsch
    Hunsrik Deitsch

    From Central Franconian dütsch, from Middle High German diutsc (“Germanic”), 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 (uncountable)

    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. (colloquial) Hunsrik language
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Hunsrick
      • 1990 October, Cléo Vilson Altenhofen, quoting Pai, chapter 7, in A aprendizagem do português em uma comunidade bilingüe do Rio Grande do Sul: um estudo de redes de comunicação em harmonia‎, Porto Alegre: UFRGS, page 220:
        Dann tun die sich beisamma unn spreche Taitsch.
        So they will gather and speak Hunsrik.

    Derived terms

    References

    • André Kuster-Cid, Eduardo Fausto Kuster Cid (2018) “alemão”, in Dicionário renano-hunsrik: português (in Portuguese), Vitória: Cousa, →ISBN, page 21, column 1
    • 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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