Dutch words from English
6 Dutch words with English in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages.
baby
It 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⟩…
dollar
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…
hallo
It 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…
oké
It 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…
sorry
It is borrowed from English sorry (“I'm sorry”), short for I am sorry, recorded as an apology in English in 1834. The English adjective meant “worried, grieved, regretful” and continues Old English…
stop
1. The plug is inherited from Middle Dutch stoppe, recorded from the 14th century, and the Philippa dictionary and the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal treat it as the noun of the verb stoppen “to…