Deitsch

• taytx (Wiesemann spelling)

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ̯t͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ̯t͡ʃ
• Syllabification: Deitsch
• Homophone: deitsch

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.‎^[1] (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^[2], Porto Alegre: UFRGS, page 220:

     Dann tun die sich beisamma unn spreche Taitsch.

     So they will gather and speak Hunsrik.

• 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

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.

Deitsch

1. the German or Pennsylvania German language