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Diets

Pronunciation: /ˈdits/

“Diets” is a Dutch word. Its 7 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. Middle Dutch
  2. Dutch
  3. German, continental West Germanic (often excluding Frisian)
  4. In favor of, or relating to, a Greater Netherlands

proper noun

  1. the Middle Dutch language
  2. the Dutch language
  3. the "German", or continental West Germanic languages (often excluding Frisian)

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.

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