Words from Old Dutch
8 words in Curio passed through Old Dutch on their way into English.
About Old Dutch
Low Franconian dialects, descended from Frankish · an earlier stage of a language still spoken today
Where
The Low Countries: southern Netherlands, northern Belgium, part of northern France, and parts of the Lower Rhine in Germany
When
Speakers
No reliable count
No census of its speakers exists.
Family path
- Frankish
- Old Dutch
- Anglo-NormanMiddle DutchDanishOld French
- English
Where it came from
Old Dutch is the set of dialects that evolved from Frankish in the Low Countries during the Early Middle Ages, from around the 6th to the 12th century. It was spoken by the descendants of the Salian Franks and is regarded as the first stage in the development of a separate Dutch language. Around the 12th century it evolved into Middle Dutch.
Source: Wikipedia
Family
Old Dutch grew out of Frankish.
Languages that grew out of Old Dutch: Middle Dutch.
The words, A to Z
- broker
The person who arranges your deal was once just the person who used to trade.
- coleslaw
This crunchy side dish carries a name that's just cabbage and salad stacked together.
- fog
The mist rolling over a field may owe its name to the tall grass that once blurred that same landscape.
- landscape
A word that once meant nothing more than a stretch of land found its true calling once painters picked up a brush.
- marten
This small woodland hunter's name actually started out describing the coat on its back, not the animal itself.
- quail
To lose your nerve was once, quite literally, to suffer.
- skipper
The person steering the boat and the butterfly darting over the meadow share a name but not a family tree.
- smuggle
There's a reason this word for sneaking goods feels like it's slipping past you as you say it.