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Diets

See also: diets and diëts

Dutch

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Etymology

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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.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdits/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Diets
  • Rhymes: -its

Adjective

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Diets (comparative Dietser, superlative meest Diets or Dietst)

  1. Middle Dutch
  2. (archaic) Dutch
  3. (obsolete) German, continental West Germanic (often excluding Frisian)

Inflection

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Declension of Diets
uninflected Diets
inflected Dietse
comparative Dietser
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial Diets Dietser het Dietst
het Dietste
indefinite m./f. sing. Dietse Dietsere Dietste
n. sing. Diets Dietser Dietste
plural Dietse Dietsere Dietste
definite Dietse Dietsere Dietste
partitive Diets Dietsers —

Derived terms

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Proper noun

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Diets n

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