thiudisk

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz. Equivalent to thiod +‎ -isk.

Adjective

thiudisk (not comparable)

  1. of the (Saxon-speaking) people

Usage notes

Attested in a gloss (in Straßburger altsächsischen Glossen): Germania is glossed as thiudisca liudi[1] (also mentioned as thiudisca liuti (German-speaking people)).[2]

Declension


Descendants

References

  1. ^ Altsächsische Sprachdenkmäler, herausgegeben von J. H. Gallée (Leiden 1894), p. 276; Old-Saxon Texts, edited by J. H. Gallée (Leiden 1894), p. 276
  2. ^ Zur Geschichte der Gleichung „germanisch–deutsch“: Sprache und Namen, Geschichte und Institutionen herausgegeben von Heinrich Beck, Dieter Geuenisch, Heiko Steuer und Dietrich Hakelberg (Berlin 2004), p. 208.