Dutch words first recorded in the 17th century

It is a fairly recent pronoun that entered the standard language from the spoken Dutch of the northern Netherlands. It is usually explained as a contraction of jij or je with lui “people”, the…

It is a compound from Dutch ieder (“each”) + een (“one”), formed in the early 17th century, like elkeen, formed from elk and the same numeral. The phrase ⟨een ieder⟩ “each one” was usual at the same…

It is the diminutive from Dutch beet + -je of beet “a bite”, so that a ⟨beetje⟩ was first a bite or mouthful, then a small piece. The noun is itself formed from bijten. The Philippa dictionary…

It is a natural exclamation used to catch someone's attention. Words of this kind are rarely written down, so their history is hard to trace. Other languages have similar forms that need not be…

It is a noun formed from the stem of the verb kijken, whose own origin is unknown. Its diminutive is kijkje. Dutch lent the noun to West Frisian kyk (“insight”).

It is from Dutch eer + -er, a new comparative of the adverb eer “before, sooner”, formed when the old comparative eerre was no longer recognised as one. The regular comparative ending /ər/ takes an…

It is borrowed from Latin problēma (“task, problem”), from Ancient Greek πρόβλημα (próblēma, “problem, obstacle, question to be solved”), literally “what is put forward”. The Greek noun comes from…

It is borrowed from French plan (“ground plan; design”), recorded in Dutch from 1674. According to the Philippa dictionary, the French word arose in the 16th century as a variant of plant (“ground…

It is formed from Dutch be- + doelen (“to aim”), from the verb doelen, itself formed from doel “target, aim”; the dictionaries allow either as the base. The verb ⟨doelen⟩ is Middle Dutch, in the…