Dutch words first recorded in the 18th century

The origin is unclear. The word is usually connected with lauw “lukewarm”, but the EWN finds the relation between the two in sound and formation unexplained. Words with a long ⟨u⟩ in the…

It is borrowed from English dollar, an English word earlier also spelled ⟨daler⟩, which came from the Low German or early modern Dutch coin name daler. That is the same word as daalder: it comes…

It is a contraction of the phrase ⟨als 't je belieft⟩ “if it pleases you”, from Dutch als (“if”) + het (“it”) + je (“you”) + believen (“to please”). The polite form alstublieft is the same phrase…

It is a derivative from Dutch belang + -rijk, formed in the 18th century. The Philippa dictionary takes the second part as the adjective rijk “rich”; the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal notes…

It is from Dutch horen (“to hear”): a shortened or assimilated form of the question ⟨hoort ge?⟩ or ⟨hoor je?⟩ “do you hear?”, used as a filler.

It is shortened from older ⟨heeltemaal⟩, from Dutch heel (“wholly”) + te + maal (“time”), a form poorly recorded because it belonged to speech, but which lives on in Afrikaans heeltemal…

It is probably borrowed from German nix, a colloquial and dialectal form of nichts (“nothing”). The Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal finds it in the Netherlands from the 18th century, perhaps…

It is formed from Dutch van + avond, the preposition van with avond “evening”, a fixed phrase that came to be written as one word. According to the EWN it was made on the model of vandaag, a…