Apr 6, 2006

Hondecoeters Birds





















Aardvark
from aardvarken (via Afrikaans)
Ahoy
from hoi (="hello")
Apartheid
from apartheid (via Afrikaans)
Avast
from houvast (="holdfast, support")
Berm
from berm
to bluff
from bluffen (="to bluff")
boom
from boom (="tree")
bore
from boren (="to make a hole")
Boss
from baas
Brandy (wine)
from brandewijn (=literally "burned wine")
Bundle
from bundel
Buoy
from boei (="shackle" or "buoy")
Candy
from kandij
Coleslaw
from koolsla
Cookie
from koekje, Hollandic koekie
Cruise
from (door)kruisen (="to cross paths or to cross")
Cruller
from Dutch krullen "to curl"
Dapper
from dapper (brave)
Dollar
from daalder
Deck
from dek ="covering" (entered English as "the cover over a ship's hold")
Dyke
from dijk
Dock (maritime)
possibly from Middle Dutch from dok
Drill
from Middle Dutch dril, drille
Decoy
from eendekooi ( a contraption to catch wild ducks = eenden, it consists of a pond with tame 'decoy' ducks and a cage = kooi )
Easel
from ezel (=originally "donkey")
Etch
from etsen
Filibuster
from Spanish filibustero from French flibustier from Dutch vrijbuiter (="pirate")
Forlorn hope
from verlorene hoop (literally "lost hope", figuratively "suicide squad")
Freebooter
from vrijbuiter
Troop
from troep meaning pack.
Freight
from vracht
Frolic
from vrolijk (="cheerful, gay")
Furlough
from verlof (="permission (to leave)")
Gallop
most likely from ga lopen (="go walk")
Gas
from gas, a neologism from Jan Baptista van Helmont, derived from the Greek Chaos
Gin
from jenever
Grab
from grijpen (="to seize, to grasp, to snatch")H
Halibut
from heilbot (=literally "health flounder")
Haul
possibly from halen
Hoist
possibly from Middle Dutch hijsen
Holster
from holster
Hunk
from hunkeren (="to lust after")
Iceberg
probably from ijsberg, from Danish isbjerg or Swedish isberg.
Isinglass
probably from Dutch huizenblas
Keelhaul
from kielhalen (=literally "to haul keel")
Knapsack
possibly from knapzak (=literally "bag of food")
Landscape
from landschap
Leak
possibly from Old Dutch lek
Maelstrom
from maalstroom (=literally "grinding current")
Maid
from meid (="girl")
Manikin
from manneken (=literally "little man")
Mannequin
from dutch manneken (=literally "little man")
Measles
possibly from mazelen
Morass
from moeras
Polder
from polder
Poppycock
from pappekak (=dialect for "soft dung")
Pump
from pompQ
Quack
shortened from quacksalver, from kwakzalver (= literally "someone who daubs ointments")
Roster
from rooster (="schedule, or. grating")
to Rove
from roven (="to rob")
Rucksack
from rugzak (=literally "back-bag")
Santa Claus
from Sinterklaas (="Saint Nicholas")
Scone
from schoon (="clean")
Scow
from schouw
Show
from schouwen
Skate, to skate
from schaats. The noun was originally adopted as in Dutch, with 'skates' being the singular form of the noun; due to the similarity to regular English plurals this form was ultimately used as the plural while 'skate' was derived for use as singular."
Sketch
from schets
Skipper
from schipper (=literally "shipper")
Snack
from snakken (="to gasp", originally "to eat")
Sled, sleigh
from Middle Dutch slede, slee
Slirp
from slurpen
Sloop
from sloep
Slurp
from slurpen
Smack
possibly from smak
smelt
from smelten (="to melt")
Smuggle
from smokkelen
Snack
from snakken naar... (="to yearn for...")
snuff
from snuiftabak (=literally "sniff tobacco")
Spa
named after Belgium mineral spring water
Splinter
from splinter
Split
from splijten
Spook
from spook (="ghost(ly image)")
Starboard
from stuurboord
Stenting
from stek (="cutting") and enten (="grafting"). This is term used specifically in propagation and cultivation of rose plants.
Stoke
from stoken (="stoke a fire")
Stool
from stoel (="chair")
stoop (steps)
from stoep (="pavement/sidewalk")
Stove
from stoof or stoven (="to cook")
tattoo (military term)
from taptoe (=literally "close the tap")
Trigger
from trekker (Trekken ="to pull")
Waffle
from wafel
Wagon
from wagen (="cart, carriage, wagon")
Yacht
from jacht (=originally "hunt")
Zeekoe
from zeekoe (=literally "sea cow)

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