different between deutsch vs dutch

German

Alternative forms

• deudsch, deütsch, Deutsch, teutsch, teütsch, Teutsch (obsolete)
• deutsh (rare, non-standard, obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German diutisch, diutsch,diutsc, tiutsch, tiusch, from Old High German diutisk, diutisc (“popular, vernacular”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of the people, popular”), an adjective from Proto-Germanic *þeud? (“people”) (compare Old English þeod), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh?. Compare Dutch Duits, Low German düütsch, Icelandic þjóð. See also Dutch.diutsc,

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???t?/

Adjective

deutsch (comparative deutscher, superlative am deutschesten)

1. German (of or pertaining to the German people)

2. German (of or pertaining to Germany)

3. German (of or pertaining to the German language)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• Deutsch
• Deutscher
• Deutschland

Descendants

• ? Chinese: ???
• ? Japanese: ??? (Doitsu)

  ? Korean: ?? (Dogil)

• Lojban: dotco

Further reading

• “deutsch” in Duden online
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “deutsch”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?ch, IPA^(key): /d?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Etymology 1

Clipping of duchess

Noun

dutch (plural dutches)

1. (slang) wife

Etymology 2

See Dutch.

Verb

dutch (third-person singular simple present dutches, present participle dutching, simple past and past participle dutched)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Dutch (“treat cocoa with alkali”)