Dutch
/dʌtʃ/noun
Relating to the Netherlands, its people, or their language.
Did you know?In older English, Dutch could refer to Germanic speakers more broadly, and the same ancestral root is behind the word Deutsch, meaning the German language and people.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*þeudō
“people, nation, folk”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*þiudiskaz
“of the people; vernacular”
Old High German
OHG
diutisc
“of the people; in the common language”
Middle Dutch / Middle Low German
MDu / MLG
duutsch / dietsch
“German; vernacular German speech”
Middle English
English
dutch
“German; Dutch; pertaining to the continental Germanic peoples”
Modern English
English
Dutch
“Relating to the Netherlands, its people, or their language”