From Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz, "folk":
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The English word "Dutch" is derived from the Middle Dutch word "duutsch". Old English itself had the related word "þeod", meaning "people, race or nation", which derives from Proto Germanic "*theudo". Originally this word was used to indicate all continental Germanic people who spoke a West Germanic language, but was later restricted to the Dutch language and the Dutch people.
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Famous quotes containing the word dutch:
“Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The French courage proceeds from vanity—the German from phlegm—the Turkish from fanaticism & opium—the Spanish from pride—the English from coolness—the Dutch from obstinacy—the Russian from insensibility—but the Italian from anger.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Too nice is neighbor’s fool.”
—Common Dutch saying, trans by Johanna C. Prins.