1800s
Dutch words first recorded in the 19th century
5 Dutch words whose earliest known written record dates from the 19th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.
hallo
1840It is probably borrowed from English hallo in its American use, taken over together with the telephone in the late 19th century. The Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal noted in 1897 that the word…
baby
1852It is borrowed from English baby (“infant, small child”). The English word is a pet form of babe, probably shortened from Middle English baban, a babbling word of the same kind as ⟨baba⟩, ⟨dada⟩…
foto
1895It is a shortening from Dutch photographie (“photograph”), the older form, from French photographie. The French word first meant the making of a picture by light (1834) and then the picture itself…
auto
1898It is borrowed from French auto, a shortening of automobile. The French word was first an adjective “self-propelled” (1861) and was used as a noun only as a shortening of voiture automobile…
oké
1899It is borrowed from English OK. The origin of the English word is not entirely certain. The Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal follows Allen Walker Read, who showed in 1963–1964 that ⟨o.k.⟩ first…