tysk

Pronunciation: /tysk/

“tysk” is a Danish word. Its 2 meanings in English:

adjective

German (relating to the country, people or language of Germany)

noun

German (the language)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Saxon thiudisc, from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of or relating to a people”), cognate with German deutsch, Dutch Duits, and English Dutch. The Old Icelandic form þýðverskr is remodelled from þýzkr after the old suffix for ethnonyms -verr (from Proto-Germanic *warjaz), compare also Icelandic Þjóðverji (“a German”). The adjective is derived form…

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