Deutsch
adj/ˈdɔɪt͡ʃ/
Etymology PIE word *tewtéh₂ Borrowed from German Deutsch (“German”). Doublet of Dutch and Doitsu.
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Rare German, in the German language.
- Riley's father, Reuben, spoke Deutsch in his boyhood home and did not learn to speak English until after his childhood even though he came from Irish roots. Riley's ancestors kept alive many of the old folktales and stories of their lives. Few of these Deutsch tales survive.1997, Thomas E. Q. Williams, James Whitcomb Riley: the poet as flying islands of the night, page 76: