Dutch
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English Duch ‘German, Low Countryman’, from Middle Dutch dūtsch, duutsc (modern Duits ‘German’), northern variant of dietsc (cf. modern Diets ‘Dutch language’), from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (cf. German Deutsch ‘German’, Old English þēodisc ‘of the people’), from *þeudō ‘people’, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. See also Derrick, Teuton, Teutonic.
Middle Dutch duutsc is the result of i-mutation (umlaut) typical of central dialects (Brabantine) while dietsc shows the merger of iu with io and weakening to [iə] typical of coastal dialects (Flemish). This led to doublets which split in meaning during the Renaissance.
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[edit] Adjective
Dutch (not comparable)
- (obsolete) German.
- (archaic) Pertaining to the Dutch, the Germans, and the Goths; Germanic, Teutonic.
- Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language.
- In a shared manner; of a shared expense.
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
of the Netherlands, people, or language
[edit] Proper noun
Dutch
- The main language of the Netherlands and Flanders (i.e., the northern half of Belgium).
- The people from the Netherlands.
- (archaic) The main language of the Holy Roman Empire (Germany, Austria, Alsace, Luxembourg)
- (archaic) A German.
[edit] Translations
the Dutch language
people from the Netherlands
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[edit] Related terms
terms related to "Dutch"
[edit] See also
- Wiktionary's coverage of Dutch terms
- Appendix:Dutch Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Dutch
[edit] External links
- Dutch - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
- ISO 639-1 code nl, ISO 639-3 code nld (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Dutch, nld
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