English
putsch
Putsch comes from German Putsch ‘coup d'état, armed uprising, putsch’, and goes back to Alemannic German Putsch ‘knock, thrust, blow’.
- Alemannic GermanmodernPutsch‘knock, thrust, blow’
- Germanc. 1650–presentPutsch‘coup d'état, armed uprising, putsch’
- Englishtodayputsch
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Alemannic GermanmodernPutsch‘knock, thrust, blow’
- Germanc. 1650–presentPutsch‘coup d'état, armed uprising, putsch’
- Englishtodayputsch
Every English word from Alemannic German Putsch
Today it means
noun A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Alemannic German Putsch / putsch