Diets
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch dietsch, from Old Dutch *thiudisc, from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz, from *þeudō (“people, nation”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”). Doublet of Duits.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdits/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Diets
- Rhymes: -its
Adjective
Diets (comparative Dietser, superlative meest Diets or Dietst)
- Middle Dutch
- (archaic) Dutch
- (obsolete) German, continental West Germanic (often excluding Frisian)
Inflection
| Inflection of Diets | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | Diets | |||
| inflected | Dietse | |||
| comparative | Dietser | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | Diets | Dietser | het Dietst het Dietste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | Dietse | Dietsere | Dietste |
| n. sing. | Diets | Dietser | Dietste | |
| plural | Dietse | Dietsere | Dietste | |
| definite | Dietse | Dietsere | Dietste | |
| partitive | Diets | Dietsers | — | |
Derived terms
- verdietsen
Proper noun
Diets n
- the Middle Dutch language
- (archaic) the Dutch language
- (obsolete) the "German", or continental West Germanic languages (often excluding Frisian)
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