An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Tisch

by Friedrich Kluge

Tisch, masculine, ‘table,’ from the equivalent Middle High German tisch, Old High German tisc, masculine; corresponding to Old Saxon disc, Dutch disch. The Old High German word also means ‘dish,’ the antiquity of which is proved by Anglo-Saxon disč, ‘dish, bowl,’ English dish. The Greek-Latin discus, on which the cognates are based, has the late signification ‘dish’ (post-classical; properly ‘disk’); yet compare also Italian desco, ‘table,’ Old French dois, ‘table’ (Modern French dais, ‘canopy, dais’).