The Origin and the Meaning of the Word “Deutsch”
The research is aimed at the analysis of the origin of the word ‘Deutsch’. The research tasks are to analyze the meaning of the word ‘Deutsch’, to carry out a word-formation analysis of the parts of the word, and also an etymological analysis, to give analogies with other words. The research hypothesis is that the word ‘Deutsch’ was formed from the components of the Germanic origin. The research methods are the word-formation analysis of the word, the etymological analysis of the word. The results are as follows: the word ‘Deutsch’ was formed from the word ‘theodisca’ which goes back to the Germanic word ‘theud’ that means ‘people’, initially it was perceived as a foreign word.