The tudesque adjective is a word of Former French used to indicate all that is of Germanic origin (related with the German Deutsch ), or, in French, all that is of Germanic origin to the Early middle ages.

One thinks in particular of the text written in tudesca lingua , opposed to the romana lingua , of the Serments of Strasbourg (in 842).

Compared etymology

The radical of the adjective deutsch comes from the Vieil German “theudisko-z”, that one can define by " relating to the people, the nation" , derived from theudo , “people, nation”. The word was used in English and German to indicate the language of the people different from Latin or the Romance languages; they were qualified “Barbare S”.

The adjective dutch of the Vieil English of it is derived, and, after having had the direction d'" allemand" , derived to mean " néerlandais". The name Dutchman wants to still say Dutch in good English. With the the United States, this adjective is also used to indicate the alive Amish in the Appalachian Mountains, called the " Pennsilfaanisch " (Pennsylvaniens), originating in the North of Germany. On the other hand, the adjective duits , which in Dutch corresponds to English dutch , has the direction d'" allemand".

• the radical theuda was preserved to the Middle English under the name of theude , but was replaced by the Roman equivalent of people and nation .

• the Italian uses the derivative tedesco . Nowadays, the Italian form tedesco translates the German adjective in its principal current French meanings. Tedesco , male singular, becomes tedesca with the female singular and tedeschi / tedesche in the plural male/female respectively.

• French uses the varied derivatives which recover distinct realities: adjective thiois ; tudesque adjective .

Other linguistic indications make it possible to connect tudesque and teuton ; to see on this subject the introduction of the article Teuton.

It is it should be noted that with the course the Middle Ages, a popular etymology tended to confer on the root theuda a noble origin by attaching it to the Greek theos, God .