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[Facts] Re: Amish names (and surnames)

by তন্ময় ভট্টাচার্য্য (guest)

12/13/2013, 12:18 PM

Apologize for the following off topic remark: The Dutch in Pennsylvania Dutch (as well as Dutch as in people from Holland) originally meant any Germanic people (ultimately from Indo-european tewteH, meaning tribe). The Pennsylvania Dutch have little connection with Netherlands as far as I know, so calling their language Dutch (as in "Dutch names") in contexts like this is confusing: using the full form "Pennsylvania Dutch" would disaambiguate.

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- jennifer +2

12/13/2013, 2:13 PM

I believe Dutch came from Deutsch, the German word for German. It looks and sounds more like Dutch, so the 'English' called them Dutch, and many live in Pennsylvania, at least when the phrase was coined.

- Getb (guest) +1

12/13/2013, 8:03 PM

Sorry for the inaccuracy.

- jennifer

12/14/2013, 5:03 AM

They are called Pennsylvania Dutch- the people who coined the phrase didn't understand their German so thought they are saying Dutch. So you weren't inaccurate- the people who came up with the name were.

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