English
putschist
Putschist comes from German Putschist ‘coupist, putschist’, and goes back to Alemannic German Putsch.
- Alemannic GermanmodernPutschliterally ‘blow’
- Germanc. 1650–presentPutsch‘coup d'état, armed uprising, putsch’
- German, derivedc. 1650–presentPutschist‘coupist, putschist’
- Englishearliest quotation 1977putschist
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history not traced here.
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- Alemannic GermanmodernPutschliterally ‘blow’
- Germanc. 1650–presentPutsch‘coup d'état, armed uprising, putsch’
- German, derivedc. 1650–presentPutschist‘coupist, putschist’
- Englishearliest quotation 1977putschist
Earliest quotation: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace: “The Forum itself would always, henceforth, wield a strange…”
Formed from putsch + -ist
Alemannic German Putsch ‘knock, thrust, blow’
German Putsch ‘coup d'état, armed uprising, putsch’
English putsch
Every English word from Alemannic German Putsch
Today it means
noun One who participates in a putsch.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Alemannic German Putsch / putschist