List of English words of Dutch origin

This is a list of words of Dutch language

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

origin. However, note that this list does also include some words of which the etymology is uncertain, and that some may have been derived from Middle Low German

Middle Low German

Middle Low German is a language that is the descendant of Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low German. It served as the international lingua franca of the Hanseatic League...

equivalents instead or as well. Some of these words, such as cookie and boss and aardvark, are without a doubt of Dutch origin. But, many of these words are similar not because they are Dutch loan words, but because English, like Dutch, is a Germanic language. Some of these words lack a counterpart in modern Dutch, having been lost since the time it was borrowed.

literally: the literal meaning of the Dutch word (the actual meaning is similar to the English one)
originally: the word originally had the meaning specified, but is in Dutch also used with the same meaning as in English

There are many different ways through which Dutch words have entered the English language. Some of the more common ways include:

Through trade and seafaring
Via the New Netherland
New Netherland
New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod...

settlements in North America
Due to contact between Dutch/Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...

speakers with English speakers in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
French words of Dutch/Flemish origin have been adopted into English

In a survey by Joseph M. Williams

Joseph M. Williams

Joseph M. Williams was a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.Williams began as a researcher of English language...

in Origins of the English Language it is estimated that about 1% of English words are of Dutch origin.

A

Aardvark

The aardvark is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa...

: from both Afrikaans

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...

and Dutch, literally "earth-pig" (the animal burrows), from aarde (="earth") + varken (="pig")^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=aardvark}
Afrikaans

Afrikaans

: from Afrikaans (via Afrikaans

Afrikaans

) (="African" adj.)
Ahoy : from hoi (="hi", "hello")
Aloof : from a- + Middle English loof (="weather gage," also "windward direction"), probably from Dutch loef (="the weather side of a ship"); originally a nautical order to keep the ship's head to the wind, thus to stay clear of a lee-shore or some other quarter, hence the figurative sense of "at a distance, apart" ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=aloof}
Avast : a nautical interjection (="hold! stop!"), probably worn down from Dutch houd vast (="hold fast" or "hold steady")^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=avast}

B

Bamboo

Bamboo is a group of perennial evergreens in the true grass family Poaceae, subfamily Bambusoideae, tribe Bambuseae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family....

: from Dutch bamboe, from Portuguese bambu, earlier mambu (16th century), probably from Malay samambu, though some suspect this is itself an imported word ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bamboo}
Bantam : after Bantam

Bantam (city)

Bantam in Banten province near the western end of Java was a strategically important site and formerly a major trading city, with a secure harbor on the Sunda Strait through which all ocean-going traffic passed, at the mouth of Banten River that provided a navigable passage for light craft into...

, former Dutch residency in Java

Java

Java is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...

, from which the small domestic fowl were said to have been first imported ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bantam} The word could have originated in Kannada

Kannada language

Kannada or , is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Karnataka. Kannada, whose native speakers are called Kannadigas and number roughly 50 million, is one of the 30 most spoken languages in the world...

ಬಮ್ಬು bambu.
Batik

Batik

Batik is a cloth that traditionally uses a manual wax-resist dyeing technique. Batik or fabrics with the traditional batik patterns are found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, China, Azerbaijan, India, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal, and Singapore.Javanese traditional batik, especially from...

: from Dutch, from Malay mbatik (="writing, drawing") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=batik}
Bazooka

Bazooka

Bazooka is the common name for a man-portable recoilless rocket antitank weapon, widely fielded by the U.S. Army. Also referred to as the "Stovepipe", the innovative bazooka was amongst the first-generation of rocket propelled anti-tank weapons used in infantry combat...

: "metal tube rocket launcher," from name of a junkyard musical instrument used as a prop by U.S. comedian Bob Burns, extension of bazoo (slang for "mouth" or "boastful talk"), probably from Dutch bazuin (="trumpet") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bazooka}
Beaker

Beaker (drinkware)

A beaker is a beverage container, and a term used in parts of the UK. A beaker is typically a non-disposable plastic or ceramic cup or mug without a handle, much like a laboratory beaker....

: from beker ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=beaker} (="mug, cup")
Beleaguer : from belegeren (="besiege, attack with an army"), leger (="army") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Beleaguer}
Berm

Berm

A berm is a level space, shelf, or raised barrier separating two areas. Berm originates in the Middle Dutch and German berme and came into usage in English via French.- History :...

: from French berme, from Old Dutch baerm (in Dutch, the English meaning is now archaic, berm being used as "usually grassy ground alongside a road") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=berm}
Bicker : "a skirmish, fight," bikern, probably from Middle Dutch bicken (="to slash, stab, attack") + -er, Middle English frequentative suffix ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bicker}
Blare : blèren (="to wail"), possibly from an unrecorded Old English *blæren, or from Middle Dutch blèren (="to bleat, cry, bawl, shout") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=blare}
Blasé : from French blasé, past participle of blaser (="to satiate"), origin unknown; perhaps from Dutch blazen (="to blow"), with a sense of "puffed up under the effects of drinking" ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=blas%E9}
Blaze (to make public, often in a bad sense, boastfully) : from Middle Dutch blasen (="to blow, on a trumpet) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=blaze}
Blink : from Middle Dutch blinken (="to glitter") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=blink}
Blister : from Old French blestre, perhaps from a Scandinavian source or from Middle Dutch blyster (="swelling") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=blister}
Block (solid piece) : from Old French bloc (="log, block"), via Middle Dutch bloc (="trunk of a tree") or Old High German bloh ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=block}
Blow (hard hit) : blowe, from northern and East Midlands dialects, perhaps from Middle Dutch blouwen (="to beat") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=blow}
Bluff (poker term) : perhaps from Dutch bluffen (="to brag, boast") or verbluffen (="to baffle, mislead") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bluff}
Bluff (landscape feature) : from Dutch blaf (="flat, broad"), apparently a North Sea nautical term for ships with flat vertical bows, later extended to landscape features ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bluff}
Blunderbuss : from Dutch donderbus, from donder (="thunder") + bus (="gun," originally "box, tube"), altered by resemblance to blunder ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=blunderbuss}
Boer

Boer

Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State,...

: (="Dutch colonist in South Africa") from Dutch boer (="farmer"), from Middle Dutch ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Boer}
Bogart

Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema....

: after Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema....

^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=bogart&searchmode=none}. Boomgaard means "orchard" ("tree-garden")^{http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=bogart}.
Boodle

Boodle

Boodle, or boodler, was a bar-room or street term for money or booty applied by the yellow press to members of the New York Board of Aldermen who were charged with accepting bribes in connection with the granting of a franchise for a street railroad on Broadway...

: perhaps from Dutch boedel (="property") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=boodle}
Boom

Boom (sailing)

In sailing, a boom is a spar , along the foot of a fore and aft rigged sail, that greatly improves control of the angle and shape of the sail. The primary action of the boom is to keep the foot of the sail flatter when the sail angle is away from the centerline of the boat. The boom also serves...

: from boom (="tree"); cognate to English beam, German baum^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=boom}
Booze : from Middle Dutch busen (="to drink in excess"); ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Booze} according to JW de Vries busen is equivalent to buizen
Boss : from baas ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Boss}
Bow

Bow (ship)

The bow is a nautical term that refers to the forward part of the hull of a ship or boat, the point that is most forward when the vessel is underway. Both of the adjectives fore and forward mean towards the bow...

(front of a ship) : from boeg ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Bow}
Brackish : from Scottish brack, from Middle Dutch brak (="salty," also "worthless") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=brackish}
Brandy

Brandy

Brandy is a spirit produced by distilling wine. Brandy generally contains 35%–60% alcohol by volume and is typically taken as an after-dinner drink...

(wine) : from brandewijn (literally "burnt wine") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Brandy}
Brawl : from brallen ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Brawl}
Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

: after the town of Breukelen

Breukelen

Breukelen is a town and former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It is situated to the north west of Utrecht, along the river Vecht and close to the lakes of the Loosdrechtse Plassen, an area of natural and touristic interest...

near Utrecht ^{BrooklynBrooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...}
Buckwheat

Buckwheat

Buckwheat refers to a variety of plants in the dicot family Polygonaceae: the Eurasian genus Fagopyrum, the North American genus Eriogonum, and the Northern Hemisphere genus Fallopia. Either of the latter two may be referred to as "wild buckwheat"...

:from Middle Dutch

Middle Dutch

Middle Dutch is a collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects which were spoken and written between 1150 and 1500...

boecweite (="beech wheat") because of its resemblance between grains and seed of beech wheat.
Bully : from boel (="lover," "brother"), from Middle High German buole, maybe influenced by bull^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=bully&searchmode=term}.
Bulwark

Bulwark

Bulwark may refer to:*A bastion or fortifications in general*In naval terminology, an extension of a ship's sides above deck level*HMS Bulwark, any of several Royal Navy ships*USS Bulwark, any of several US Navy ships...

: from bolwerk ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Bulwark}
Bundle : from Middle Dutch bondel (=diminutive of bond), from binden "bind," or perhaps a merger of this word and Old English byndele (="binding") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Bundle}
Bumpkin: from bommekijn (="little barrel") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bumpkin}
Bung : from Middle Dutch bonge (="stopper"), or perhaps from French bonde, which may be of Germanic origin, or from Gaulish bunda ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bung}
Buoy

Buoy

A buoy is a floating device that can have many different purposes. It can be anchored or allowed to drift. The word, of Old French or Middle Dutch origin, is now most commonly in UK English, although some orthoepists have traditionally prescribed the pronunciation...

: from boei (="shackle" or "buoy") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Buoy}
Bush (uncleared district of a British colony) : probably from Dutch bosch, in the same sense, since it seems to appear first in former Dutch colonies ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bush}

C

Caboose

A caboose is a manned North American rail transport vehicle coupled at the end of a freight train. Although cabooses were once used on nearly every freight train, their use has declined and they are seldom seen on trains, except on locals and smaller railroads.-Function:The caboose provided the...

: from kambuis or kombuis (="ship's kitchen", "galley") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=caboose}
Cam : from Dutch cam (="cog of a wheel," originally "comb"), cognate of English comb
Clove (disambiguation)

Clove (disambiguation)

Cloves are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae.Clove may also refer to:* A segment of a bulb of garlic* A steep valley * Anything which has been rent, for example the on Mt Tongariro...

: from kloof (="steep valley", "gorge")
Cockatoo

Cockatoo

A cockatoo is any of the 21 species belonging to the bird family Cacatuidae. Along with the Psittacidae and the Strigopidae , they make up the parrot order Psittaciformes . Placement of the cockatoos as a separate family is fairly undisputed, although many aspects of the other living lineages of...

: from kaketoe ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Cockatoo}
Coleslaw

Coleslaw

Coleslaw, sometimes simply called slaw in some American dialects, is a salad consisting primarily of shredded raw cabbage. It may also include shredded carrots and other ingredients such as fruits and vegetables, apples, onions, green onions, peppers and various spices.-History:The term "coleslaw"...

: from koolsla (literally "cabbage salad") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Cole-slaw}
Commodore

Commodore (rank)

Commodore is a military rank used in many navies that is superior to a navy captain, but below a rear admiral. Non-English-speaking nations often use the rank of flotilla admiral or counter admiral as an equivalent .It is often regarded as a one-star rank with a NATO code of OF-6, but is not always...

: probably from Dutch kommandeur, from French commandeur, from Old French comandeor ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=commodore}
Cookie

In the United States and Canada, a cookie is a small, flat, baked treat, usually containing fat, flour, eggs and sugar. In most English-speaking countries outside North America, the most common word for this is biscuit; in many regions both terms are used, while in others the two words have...

: from koekje, or in informal Dutch koekie ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Cookie} (="biscuit", "cookie")
Coney Island

Coney Island

Coney Island is a peninsula and beach on the Atlantic Ocean in southern Brooklyn, New York, United States. The site was formerly an outer barrier island, but became partially connected to the mainland by landfill....

: (English dialect word for Rabbit) from Conyne Eylandt (literally "Rabbits' Island")
Crimp : from krimpen (= "to shrink")
Cruise : from Dutch kruisen (="to cross, sail to and fro"), from kruis (="cross") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Cruise}
Cruller

Cruller

A cruller, or twister, is a twisted and usually ring-shaped fried pastry. It is traditionally made of dough somewhat like that of a cake doughnut, often topped with plain powdered sugar; powdered sugar mixed with cinnamon; or icing...

: from Dutch krullen (="to curl") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Cruller}

D

Dam

A dam is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams. Dams generally serve the primary purpose of retaining water, while other structures such as floodgates or levees are used to manage or prevent water flow into specific land regions. Hydropower and pumped-storage hydroelectricity are...

: from Middle Dutch dam (compare Amsterdam or Rotterdam) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Dam}
Dapper : from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German dapper (="bold, strong, sturdy,") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Dapper}
Deck : from dek (originally "covering") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Deck}
Decoy

Decoy

A decoy is usually a person, device or event meant as a distraction, to conceal what an individual or a group might be looking for. Decoys have been used for centuries most notably in game hunting, but also in wartime and in the committing or resolving of crimes.-Duck decoy:The term duck decoy may...

: from de kooi (="the cage," used of a pond surrounded by nets, into which wildfowl were lured for capture) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Decoy}
Delftware

Delftware

Delftware, or Delft pottery, denotes blue and white pottery made in and around Delft in the Netherlands and the tin-glazed pottery made in the Netherlands from the 16th century....

: from Delft, town in Holland where the glazed earthenware was made; the town named from its chief canal, from Dutch delf, (literally "ditch, canal"), which is related to Old English dælf and modern delve ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Delftware}
Dike : from dijk (="embankment") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Dike}
Dock

Dock (maritime)

A dock is a human-made structure or group of structures involved in the handling of boats or ships, usually on or close to a shore.However, the exact meaning varies among different variants of the English language...

(maritime) : from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German docke ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Dock}
Domineer : from Dutch domineren (="to rule") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=domineer}
Dope

Dope

Dope may refer to:* Illegal drugs * An idiot...

: old meaning "sauce," now "drugs," comes from the Dutch verb (in)dopen (usually ="to baptize," but here ="to dip in") ^{http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/dope}
Dredge

Dredge

Dredging is an excavation activity or operation usually carried out at least partly underwater, in shallow seas or fresh water areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments and disposing of them at a different location...

: from Scottish dreg-boat (="boat for dredging") or Middle Dutch dregghe (="drag-net"), one possibly from the other but hard to tell which came first; probably ultimately from root of drag ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=dredge}
Drill

Drill

A drill or drill motor is a tool fitted with a cutting tool attachment or driving tool attachment, usually a drill bit or driver bit, used for drilling holes in various materials or fastening various materials together with the use of fasteners. The attachment is gripped by a chuck at one end of...

(verb) : from Middle Dutch dril, drille and in modern Dutch drillen ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Drill}
Drug : from Old French drogue, perhaps from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German droge-vate (="dry barrels"), with first element mistaken as word for the contents (see dry goods), or because medicines mostly consisted of dried herbs ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=drug}
Dune

Dune

In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by wind. Dunes occur in different forms and sizes, formed by interaction with the wind. Most kinds of dunes are longer on the windward side where the sand is pushed up the dune and have a shorter "slip face" in the lee of the wind...

: English is from French dune (1790). French is possibly from Middle Dutch dune.^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=dune&searchmode=none}

E

Easel

An easel is an upright support used for displaying and/or fixing something resting upon it.-Etymology:The word is an old Germanic synonym for donkey...

: from ezel (=originally (and still) "donkey") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Easel}
Elope

Elope

To elope, most literally, merely means to run away with a girl and to not come back to the point of origination. More specifically, elopement is often used to refer to a marriage conducted in sudden and secretive fashion, usually involving hurried flight away from one's place of residence together...

: from ontlopen (run away) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Elope}
Etch : from ets or etsen ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Etch}
Excise

Excise

Excise tax in the United States is a indirect tax on listed items. Excise taxes can be and are made by federal, state and local governments and are far from uniform throughout the United States...

(noun) : (="tax on goods") from Middle Dutch excijs, apparently altered from accijns (="tax"); English got the word, and the idea for the tax, from Holland ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=excise}

F

Filibuster

A filibuster is a type of parliamentary procedure. Specifically, it is the right of an individual to extend debate, allowing a lone member to delay or entirely prevent a vote on a given proposal...

: from Spanish filibustero from French flibustier ultimately from Dutch vrijbuiter (="pirate" or "freebooter") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Filibuster}
Flense : from Danish flense or Dutch vlensen ^{http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/flense}
Flushing, Queens

Flushing, Queens

Flushing, founded in 1645, is a neighborhood in the north central part of the City of New York borough of Queens, east of Manhattan.Flushing was one of the first Dutch settlements on Long Island. Today, it is one of the largest and most diverse neighborhoods in New York City...

: from Vlissingen, a city in the Netherlands
Foist : from Dutch vuisten (="take in hand"), from Middle Dutch vuist (="fist") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=foist}
Forlorn hope

Forlorn hope

A forlorn hope is a band of soldiers or other combatants chosen to take the leading part in a military operation, such as an assault on a defended position, where the risk of casualties is high....

: from verloren hoop (literally "lost heap," figuratively "suicide mission," "cannon fodder

Cannon fodder

Cannon fodder is an informal, derogatory term for military personnel who are regarded or treated as expendable in the face of enemy fire. The term is generally used in situations where soldiers are forced to deliberately fight against hopeless odds in an effort to achieve a strategic goal...

") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Forlorn} Forlorn also has identical cognates in German and the Scandinavian languages
Freebooter : from vrijbuiter ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Freebooter}
Freight : from vracht ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Freight}
Frolic : from vrolijk (="cheerful") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Frolic}
Furlough : from verlof (="permission (to leave)") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Furlough}

G

Galoot : (="awkward or boorish man"), originally a sailor's contemptuous word (="raw recruit, green hand") for soldiers or marines, of uncertain origin; "Dictionary of American Slang" proposes galut, Sierra Leone creole form of Spanish galeoto (="galley slave"); perhaps rather Dutch slang kloot (="testicle"), klootzak (="scrotum"), used figuratively as an insult ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=galoot}
Gas

Gas

Gas is one of the three classical states of matter . Near absolute zero, a substance exists as a solid. As heat is added to this substance it melts into a liquid at its melting point , boils into a gas at its boiling point, and if heated high enough would enter a plasma state in which the electrons...

: from gas, a neologism from Jan Baptista van Helmont, derived from the Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

chaos

Chaos (cosmogony)

Chaos refers to the formless or void state preceding the creation of the universe or cosmos in the Greek creation myths, more specifically the initial "gap" created by the original separation of heaven and earth....

^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Gas}
Geek

Geek

The word geek is a slang term, with different meanings ranging from "a computer expert or enthusiast" to "a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts", with a general pejorative meaning of "a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person, esp[ecially] one who is perceived to...

: from geck (gek) (="fool") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Geek} ^{http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2004/08/whats-the-etymology-of-geek.html}
Gherkin

Gherkin

The gherkin is a fruit similar in form and nutritional value to a cucumber. Gherkins and cucumbers belong to the same species , but are from different cultivar groups....

: from Dutch plural of gurk (="cucumber"), shortened form of East Frisian augurk ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=gherkin}
Gimp (cord or thread) : from Dutch gimp ^{http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gimp}
Gin

Gin

Gin is a spirit which derives its predominant flavour from juniper berries . Although several different styles of gin have existed since its origins, it is broadly differentiated into two basic legal categories...

: from jenever ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Gin}
Gnu

GNU

GNU is a Unix-like computer operating system developed by the GNU project, ultimately aiming to be a "complete Unix-compatible software system"...

: from gnoe (from Bushman

Bushmen

The indigenous people of Southern Africa, whose territory spans most areas of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola, are variously referred to as Bushmen, San, Sho, Barwa, Kung, or Khwe...

!nu) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Gnu}
Golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

: from kolf (="bat, club," but also a game played with these)
Grab : from grijpen (="to seize, to grasp, to snatch") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Grab}
Gruff : from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German grof (="coarse (in quality), thick, large") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=gruff}
Guilder

Guilder

Guilder is the English translation of the Dutch gulden — from Old Dutch for 'golden'. The guilder originated as a gold coin but has been a common name for a silver or base metal coin for some centuries...

: from gulden ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Guilder}

H

Hale (verb) : (="drag, summon"), from Old Frankonian haler (="to pull, haul"), from Frankonian *halon or Old Dutch halen, both from Proto Germanic ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hale}
Hankering : from Middle Dutch hankeren or Dutch hunkeren ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Hanker}
Harlem

Harlem

Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands...

: called after the city of Haarlem near Amsterdam
Hartebeest

Hartebeest

The hartebeest is a grassland antelope found in West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa. It is one of the three species classified in the genus Alcelaphus....

: from both Afrikaans

Afrikaans

(Hartebees) and Dutch (Hartenbeest)
Hoboken

Hoboken, New Jersey

Hoboken is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 50,005. The city is part of the New York metropolitan area and contains Hoboken Terminal, a major transportation hub for the region...

: possibly named after the Flemish town Hoboken, from Middle Dutch Hooghe Buechen or Hoge Beuken (="High Beeches" or "Tall Beeches")
Howitzer : from Dutch houwitzer, which in turn comes from German Haussnitz and later Haubitze.

Hoist : possibly from Middle Dutch hijsen ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Hoist}
Holster : from holster ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Holster}
Hooky : from hoekje (=corner) in the sense of "to go around the corner" ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hooky}
Hoyden : maybe from heiden (=backwoodsman), from Middle Dutch (=heathern) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hoyden}

I

Iceberg

An iceberg is a large piece of ice from freshwater that has broken off from a snow-formed glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water. It may subsequently become frozen into pack ice...

: probably from Dutch ijsberg (literally ice mountain). ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Iceberg}
Ietsism

Ietsism

Ietsism is an unspecified belief in some higher force. It is a Dutch term for a range of beliefs held by people who, on the one hand, inwardly suspect - or indeed believe - that there is “More between Heaven and Earth” than we know about, but on the other hand do not necessarily accept or...

: from Dutch ietsisme (literally: somethingism) an unspecified faith in a higher or supernatural power or force
Isinglass

Isinglass

Isinglass is a substance obtained from the dried swim bladders of fish. It is a form of collagen used mainly for the clarification of wine and beer. It can also be cooked into a paste for specialized gluing purposes....

: probably from Dutch huizenblas (No longer used) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Isinglass}

K

Keelhauling

Keelhauling is a form of punishment meted out to sailors at sea...

: from kielhalen (literally "to haul keel")^{http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/keelhaul}
Keeshond

Keeshond

The Keeshond is a medium-sized dog with a plush two-layer coat of silver and black fur with a 'ruff' and a curled tail. It originated in Germany, and its closest relatives are the other German spitzes such as the Pomeranian...

: prob. from special use of Kees (shortening of proper name Cornelius) + hond "dog" ^{http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/keeshond}
Kill (body of water)

Kill (body of water)

As a body of water, a kill is a creek. The word comes from the Middle Dutch kille, meaning "riverbed" or "water channel." The modern Dutch term is kil....

: from kil from Middle Dutch kille (literally "riverbed") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Kill}
Kink : from kink referring to a twist in a rope ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=kink}
Knapsack : possibly from knapzak (literally "bag of snacks") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Knapsack}
Knickerbocker : The pen-name was borrowed from Washington Irving's friend Herman Knickerbacker, and literally means "toy marble-baker." Also, descendants of Dutch settlers to New York are referred to as Knickerbockers and later became used in reference to a style of pants ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Knickerbocker}

L

Landscape

Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including the physical elements of landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of...

: from landschap ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Landscape}
Leak : possibly from lekken (="to drip, to leak") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Leak}
Loafer : from loper (="walker") ^{http://home.hccnet.nl/am.siebers/woorden/export.html#GELEEND}
Loiter : from Middle Dutch loteren ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Loiter}
Luck

Luck

Luck or fortuity is good fortune which occurs beyond one's control, without regard to one's will, intention, or desired result. There are at least two senses people usually mean when they use the term, the prescriptive sense and the descriptive sense...

: from Middle Dutch luc, shortening of gheluc (="happiness, good fortune")('geluk' in modern Dutch) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=luck}

M

Maelstrom

A maelstrom is a very powerful whirlpool; a large, swirling body of water. A free vortex, it has considerable downdraft. The power of tidal whirlpools tends to be exaggerated by laymen. There are virtually no stories of large ships ever being sucked into a maelstrom, although smaller craft are in...

: from maalstroom (literally "grinding current" or "stirring current") (possibly Norse in origin) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Maelstrom}
Manikin : from Brabantian

Brabantian

Brabantian or Brabantish, also Brabantic , is a dialect group of the Dutch language. It is named after the historical Duchy of Brabant which corresponded mainly to the Dutch province of North Brabant, the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and Flemish Brabant, as well as the institutional Region of...

manneken (literally "little man") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Manikin}
Mannequin

Mannequin

A mannequin is an often articulated doll used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, and others especially to display or fit clothing...

: via French from Dutch (Brabantian) manneken (literally "little man") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Mannequin}
Mart : from Middle Dutch marct (literally "market") (modern Dutch: markt) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Mart}
Mast

Mast

-Engineering:* Mast , a pole that holds a sail on sailing ships and boats, or radar and telecommunication antennas on modern warships* Guyed mast, a type of tall structure supported by guy-wires...

: from Dutch mast, having the same meaning.
Measles

Measles

Measles, also known as rubeola or morbilli, is an infection of the respiratory system caused by a virus, specifically a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus. Morbilliviruses, like other paramyxoviruses, are enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA viruses...

: possibly from Middle Dutch masel "blemish" (modern Dutch: mazelen) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Measles}
Meerkat

Meerkat

The meerkat or suricate, Suricata suricatta, is a small mammal belonging to the mongoose family. Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa. A group of meerkats is called a "mob", "gang" or "clan"...

: from both Afrikaans and Dutch meerkat ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Meerkat} (but the words do not have the same meaning)
Morass : from moeras (="swamp") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Morass}

O

Offal

Offal , also called, especially in the United States, variety meats or organ meats, refers to the internal organs and entrails of a butchered animal. The word does not refer to a particular list of edible organs, which varies by culture and region, but includes most internal organs other than...

: possibly from Middle Dutch afval (="leftovers, rubbish") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Offal}

P

Patroon

In the United States, a patroon was a landholder with manorial rights to large tracts of land in the 17th century Dutch colony of New Netherland in North America...

: from patroon (="patron") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Patroon}
Pickle : c.1440, probably from Middle Dutch pekel ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Pickle}
Pinkie

Little finger

The little finger, often called the pinky in American English, pinkie in Scottish English , or small finger in medicine, is the most ulnar and usually smallest finger of the human hand, opposite the thumb, next to the ring finger.-Muscles:There are four muscles that...

: Pinkje/Pinkie ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Pinkie}
Pit : the stone of a drupaceous fruit : from pit ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Pit}
Plug

Plug

Plug may refer to:* Plug for the plughole in the bathtub, washbasin and sink* Plug , a short lived British comic that ran from 1977 until 1979, when it merged with The Beezer, which featured a character from The Bash Street Kids called Plug as it's main star.* Plug , a family of fishing lures*...

: from plugge, originally a maritime term.^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=plug&searchmode=none}
Polder

Polder

A polder is a low-lying tract of land enclosed by embankments known as dikes, that forms an artificial hydrological entity, meaning it has no connection with outside water other than through manually-operated devices...

: from polder
Poppycock

Poppycock

Poppycock is a brand of candied popcorn. Though it is marketed in a variety of combinations, the original mixture consists of clusters of popcorn, almonds, and pecans covered in a candy glaze. Other specialty combinations include mixtures with emphasis on cashews, chocolate, and...

: from pappekak (=dialect for "soft dung") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Poppycock}
Pump

Pump

A pump is a device used to move fluids, such as liquids, gases or slurries.A pump displaces a volume by physical or mechanical action. Pumps fall into three major groups: direct lift, displacement, and gravity pumps...

: from pomp ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Pump}
Puss : Pet name for a cat, from Poes

Q

Quack

A quack is a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, knowledge, or qualifications he or she does not possess.Quack may also refer to:* Quack , an independent-comics series published by Star Reach in the 1970s...

: shortened from quacksalver, from kwakzalver (literally "someone who daubs ointments") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Quack}

R

Roster : from rooster (="schedule, or grating/grill") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Roster}
Rover: from rover (="robber") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Rover}
Rucksack: from rugzak (="bag that is carried on your back") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Rucksack}

S

Santa Claus

Santa Claus is a folklore figure in various cultures who distributes gifts to children, normally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint Nicholas, but refers to Santa Claus...

: from Middle Dutch Sinterklaas
Sinterklaas
Sinterklaas is a traditional Winter holiday figure still celebrated today in the Low Countries, including the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as French Flanders and Artois...

(="Saint Nicholas"), bishop of Asia Minor who became a patron saint for children. (Dutch and Flemish feast celebrated on the 5th and 6 December respectively) (Origins of Santa Claus in US culture)^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Santa+Claus}
Schooner

Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

(boat) : from schoener
Scone

Scone (bread)

The scone is a small Scottish quick bread especially popular in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,Belgium and Ireland, but are also eaten in many other countries. They are usually made of wheat, barley or oatmeal, with baking powder as a leavening agent...

: from schoon (="clean") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Scone}
Scow

Scow

A scow, in the original sense, is a flat-bottomed boat with a blunt bow, often used to haul bulk freight; cf. barge. The etymology of the word is from the Dutch schouwe, meaning such a boat.-Sailing scows:...

: from schouw (a type of boat) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Scow}
Scum

Scum

Scum may refer to:* A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid * A greenish water vegetation , usually found floating on the surface of ponds...

: from schuim (froth, foam) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Scum}
Shoal

Shoal

Shoal, shoals or shoaling may mean:* Shoal, a sandbank or reef creating shallow water, especially where it forms a hazard to shipping* Shoal draught , of a boat with shallow draught which can pass over some shoals: see Draft...

: from Middle Dutch schole (="large number (of fish)") (modern Dutch: markt) (etymology not sure)
Skate

Skate

Skates are cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea of rays. There are more than 200 described species in 27 genera. There are two subfamilies, Rajinae and Arhynchobatinae ....

: 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." ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Skate}
Sketch : from schets ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Sketch}
to Scour : from Middle Dutch scuren (now "schuren") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=scour, cognate of the English word "shower".}
Skipper : from Middle Dutch scipper (now schipper, literally "shipper") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Skipper}
Sled

Sled

A sled, sledge, or sleigh is a land vehicle with a smooth underside or possessing a separate body supported by two or more smooth, relatively narrow, longitudinal runners that travels by sliding across a surface. Most sleds are used on surfaces with low friction, such as snow or ice. In some cases,...

, sleigh : from Middle Dutch slede, slee ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Sled}
Slim : "thin, slight, slender," from Dutch slim "bad, sly, clever," from Middle Dutch slim "bad, crooked," ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Slim}
Sloop

Sloop

A sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....

: from sloep ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Sloop}
Slurp : from slurpen ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Slurp}
Smack (boat) : possibly from smak "sailboat," perhaps so-called from the sound made by its sails ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Smack}
Smearcase : from smeerkaas (="cheese that can be spread over bread, cottage-cheese")
Smelt

Smelting

Smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore. This includes iron extraction from iron ore, and copper extraction and other base metals from their ores...

: from smelten (="to melt") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=smelt}
Smuggler : from Low German smuggeln or Dutch smokkelen (="to transport (goods) illegally"), apparently a frequentative formation of a word meaning "to sneak" ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=smuggler}
Snack

Snack

A snack is a small portion of food eaten between meals. The food might be snack food—items like potato chips or baby carrots—but could also simply be a smaller amount of any food item.-Snacks and health:...

: perhaps from Middle Dutch snakken (="to long" (snakken naar lucht="to gasp for air") originally "to eat"/"chatter") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Snack}
Snicker: from Dutch snikken (="to gasp, sob")
Snoop : from snoepen (to eat (possibly in secret) something sweet) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=snoop}
Snuff : from snuiftabak (literally "sniff tobacco") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=snuff}
Splinter : from splinter ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Splinter}
Split : from Middle Dutch splitten ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Split}
Spook : from spook (="ghost(ly image)") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Spook}
Spoor

Spoor (animal)

Spoor is any sign of a creature. Spoor includes track, trail and droppings. Spoor is useful for discovering or surveying what types of animals live in an area, or in animal tracking.Generally droppings can be referred to as scat....

: from both Afrikaans

Afrikaans

and Dutch spoor (="track"/"trail")
Stoker : from stoken (="stoke a fire") ^{http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stoker}
Stern

Stern

The stern is the rear or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite of the bow, the foremost part of a ship. Originally, the term only referred to the aft port section...

: hind part of a ship related to Steven in Dutch and Stiarn in Frisian ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Stern}
Still life

Still life

A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...

: from Dutch stilleven ^{http://home.hccnet.nl/am.siebers/woorden/export.html#GELEEND}
Stoop (steps) : from stoep (=road up a dike, usually right-angled) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Stoop}
Stockfish

Stockfish

Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks on the foreshore, called "hjell". The drying of food is the world's oldest known preservation method, and dried fish has a storage life of several years...

: from Dutch stokvis (= "stick fish")
Stove

Stove

A stove is an enclosed heated space. The term is commonly taken to mean an enclosed space in which fuel is burned to provide heating, either to heat the space in which the stove is situated or to heat the stove itself, and items placed on it...

: from Middle Dutch stove (="heated room"). The Dutch word stoof, pronounced similarly, is a small (often wooden) box with holes in it. One would place glowing coals inside so it would emanate heat, and then put one's feet on top of it while sitting (in a chair) to keep one's feet warm. ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Stove}
Sutler

Sutler

A sutler or victualer is a civilian merchant who sells provisions to an army in the field, in camp or in quarters. The sutler sold wares from the back of a wagon or a temporary tent, allowing them to travel along with an army or to remote military outposts...

: from zoetelaar (="one who sweetens", sweetener, old-fashioned for "camp cook") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Sutler}

T

Tattoo

Military tattoo

The original meaning of military tattoo is a military drum performance, but nowadays it sometimes means army displays more generally.It dates from the 17th century when the British Army was fighting in the Low Countries...

(military term) : from taptoe (literally "close the tap"). So called because police used to visit taverns in the evening to shut off the taps of casks. ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tattoo}
Tickle

Tickle

tickling is the act of touching a part of the body lightly so as to cause involuntary laughter or contraction of the muscles;The word tickle can refer to:...

: from kietelen ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tickle}
Trigger : from trekker (Trekken ="to pull") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Trigger}
Tulip

Tulip

The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, which comprises 109 species and belongs to the family Liliaceae. The genus's native range extends from as far west as Southern Europe, North Africa, Anatolia, and Iran to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of...

: from tulp ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Tulip}

V

Vang : from Dutch vangen (=to catch)
Veld : from Cape Dutch

Cape Dutch

Cape Dutch are people of the Western Cape of South Africa who descended primarily from Dutch and Flemish as well as smaller numbers of French, German and other European immigrants along with a percentage of their Asian and African slaves, who, from the 17th century into the 19th century, remained...

, used in South African English

South African English

The term South African English is applied to the first-language dialects of English spoken by South Africans, with the L1 English variety spoken by Zimbabweans, Zambians and Namibians, being recognised as offshoots.There is some social and regional variation within South African English...

to describe a field

W

Waffle

A waffle is a batter- or dough-based cake cooked in a waffle iron patterned to give a distinctive and characteristic shape. There are many variations based on the type and shape of the iron and the recipe used....

(noun) : from Dutch wafel, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German wafel ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Waffle}
Walrus

Walrus

The walrus is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous circumpolar distribution in the Arctic Ocean and sub-Arctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. The walrus is the only living species in the Odobenidae family and Odobenus genus. It is subdivided into three subspecies: the Atlantic...

: from walrus ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Walrus}
Wagon

Wagon

A wagon is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draught animals; it was formerly often called a wain, and if low and sideless may be called a dray, trolley or float....

: from Dutch wagen, Middle Dutch waghen (= "cart, carriage, wagon") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Wagon}
Wentletrap

Wentletrap

Wentletraps are small, often white, very high-spired, predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the family Epitoniidae.The word wentletrap originated in Dutch , and it means spiral staircase...

: from Dutch wenteltrap: wentelen (= "winding, spiraling") and trap (= "stairway").
Wiggle : from wiggelen (= "to wobble, to wiggle") or wiegen (= "to rock") ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Wiggle}
Wildebeest

Wildebeest

The wildebeest , also called the gnu is an antelope of the genus Connochaetes. It is a hooved mammal...

: from Dutch "wilde" (= "wild") and "beest" (= "beast") ^{WildebeestWildebeest
The wildebeest , also called the gnu is an antelope of the genus Connochaetes. It is a hooved mammal...}
Witloof : from Belgian Dutch witloof (literally wit "white" + loof "foliage"), Dutch witlof ^{http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/witloof}
Wrack

Wrack

The term "wrack" can refer to a thin, flying cloud.Wrack may also refer to:* wrack , a concept in knot theory* wrack , several species of seaweed* Wrack , a novel about the Mahogany Ship...

: probably from wrak ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=wrack}

Y

Yacht

A yacht is a recreational boat or ship. The term originated from the Dutch Jacht meaning "hunt". It was originally defined as a light fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries...

: from Dutch jacht, from Middle Low German jacht, short for jachtschip (literally "hunting ship") ^{http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yacht}
Yankee

Yankee

The term Yankee has several interrelated and often pejorative meanings, usually referring to people originating in the northeastern United States, or still more narrowly New England, where application of the term is largely restricted to descendants of the English settlers of the region.The...

: from Jan Kees, a personal name, originally used mockingly to describe pro-French revolutionary citizens, with allusion to the small keeshond

Keeshond

dog, then for "colonials" in New Amsterdam (Note: this is not the only possible etymology for the word yankee. For one thing, the Oxford English Dictionary has quotes with the term from as early as 1765, quite some time before the French Revolution

French Revolution

The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...

.) ^{http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Yankee}

External links

Online Etymology Dictionary
Alan Hope, "Talk the talk" - article in Flanders Today on the influence of Dutch on other languages

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