Dutch words first recorded in the 16th century

It is borrowed from Middle French precis (“exact, precise”) (modern French précis, recorded in French from 1377), from Medieval Latin precisus (“compressed, concise”). Van Veen and Van der Sijs and…

It is a noun of action from the verb zetten “to set, place, put”, as the WNT, Franck and Van Wijk, and the ANW explain. Kiliaan's dictionary of 1599 does not list it in the modern sense, but Middle…

It is a 16th-century formation from Dutch waar (“true”) + schijnlijk (“apparent”). The second part is Middle Dutch schijnlijc (“evident, apparent”), from schijnen in the sense “to make a certain…

It is borrowed from Italian prima (“first”), the feminine of primo, taken from phrases such as prima sorte (“first sort, best wares”) and della prima classe (“of the first class”). The Italian word…

It is the Hollandic form of the pronoun that became gij in most of the Dutch-speaking area: inherited from Middle Dutch ji, a northern form beside gi, inherited from Old Dutch gī (“you (plural)”)…

Its origin is uncertain. The EWN suggests that it may be a variant of exclamations such as ho and hé, or else a shortening of ahoi, although the longer word may equally be an extension of hoi. Van…

It is borrowed from French agent (“representative, agent”), from Latin agēns (“acting; one who acts”), the present participle of agō (“to do, act”). French had the noun by 1332, from Italian agente…

It is from Dutch duiden (“to interpret, explain”) + -lijk, with the linking vowel ⟨e⟩, first recorded in the middle of the 16th century. De Vries and De Tollenaere derive it instead from German…

It is inherited from Middle Dutch gradich (“hungry, greedy”), inherited from Old Dutch *grādag, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *grādag, inherited from Proto-Germanic *grēdagaz (“hungry”)…

It is probably the genitive of al “all”, itself Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all”), just as niets and iets are genitives. Middle Dutch used the genitive after verbs that governed that case, as in ⟨alles…

It is borrowed from French lustre (“shine, splendour”), which came into Dutch in the 16th century. The French noun, recorded from 1482, is from Italian lustro (“gleam; glory”), formed from the verb…

It is formed from volgend, the present participle of volgen, with the adverbial -s, and ⟨-nds⟩ was simplified to ⟨-ns⟩. Middle Dutch already used the bare participle volgende as a preposition “in…

It is borrowed from German geheim, taken over in the 16th century. In late Middle High German geheim meant “belonging to the house”, then “familiar, intimate” and finally “hidden from the outside…

Its likely source is from Dutch behoeven (“to need”), of which it is the colloquial form; the prefixed verb is recorded about three centuries earlier, the plain one only from 1588, when Kiliaan…

It is borrowed from German erinnern (“to remind”), borrowed in the second half of the 16th century, with the German prefix replaced by her-. The German verb is first known from Luther's Bible…

It is inherited from Middle Dutch soec (“search”) (also feminine soeke) in the phrase ⟨te soeke(n)⟩, the preposition te with the dative of the noun; the adjective is a shortening of this phrase…