thiois

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French tiois, tieis, tiedeis, from early Medieval Latin theodiscus, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz. Doublet of tudesque. Compare Italian tedesco.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ti.wa/

Adjective

thiois (feminine thioise, masculine plural thiois, feminine plural thioises)

(archaic) Teutonic, Germanic, Flemish
(Lorraine, Alsace, relational) Franconian (dialects)

Further reading

“thiois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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