Theodisca
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Theodisca is a medieval term from Northern Europe used for the common people and their language.
It is derived from Common Germanic *Þeudiskaz. The stem of this word, *Þeuda, meant "people" in Common Germanic, and *-isk was an adjective-forming suffix, of which -ish is the modern English form. (The final suffix, *-az, is a Common Germanic nominative case ending.) Ultimately, the word comes from Indoeuropean *teuta, meaning "tribe".[1]
It has survived in the English word Dutch, the German word Deutsch, the Dutch words Diets and Duits, the yiddish word taytsh, the Danish word tysk, the Swedish word Tyska, the Icelandic word þjóð, meaning people or nation and the modern Italian word tedesco, meaning "German".
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- ^ American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New College Edition, Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, 1981. ISBN 0-395-20360-0. P. 1546, at teuta.]
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