English Online Dictionary. What means deutsch? What does deutsch mean?
German
Alternative forms
- deudsch, deütsch, Deutsch, teutsch, teütsch, Teutsch (obsolete)
- deutsh (rare, nonstandard, obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle High German diutisch, diutsch, tiutsch, from Old High German diutisk (“popular, vernacular”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of the people, popular”), an adjective from Proto-Germanic *þeudō (“people”, whence Old English þeod, Icelandic þjóð), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂.
Cognate with Dutch Duits and Diets, Low German düütsch, English Dutch, Danish tysk. The spelling teutsch was reinforced (if not triggered) by Latin theodiscus and teutonicus. It was predominant in Early Modern German, but died out in the 19th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔʏ̯t͡ʃ/
Adjective
deutsch (strong nominative masculine singular deutscher, comparative deutscher, superlative am deutschesten)
- (relational) German (of or pertaining to the German people)
- (relational) German (of or pertaining to Germany)
- (relational) German (of or pertaining to the German language)
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
- Deutsch
- Deutscher
- Deutschland
- Deutschmerisch
- theodisk
Descendants
- → Chinese: 德意志 (Déyìzhì)
- → Japanese: ドイツ (Doitsu)
- → Korean: 독일 (Dogil)
- Lojban: dotco
Further reading
- “deutsch” in Duden online
- “deutsch” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “deutsch”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891