vertellen Dutch · revision 37129

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 1240, Middle Dutch (Limburg)}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /vərˈtɛlə(n)/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vertellen''' (past ''vertelde''; past participle ''verteld'')^(Wiktionary)^(VMNW)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|dum|vertellen]], formed [[af|nl|ver-|tellen]] in the Middle Dutch sense of the verb “to say, tell”, which itself grew out of “to count, list the facts”.^(EWN)^(VMNW)^(De Vries & De Tollenaere 2004|408)^(Wiktionary) French [[m|fr|raconter|t=to tell]] beside [[m|fr|conter]], and German [[m|de|erzählen|t=to tell]] beside [[m|de|zählen|t=to count]], show the same development.^(EWN)^(Vercoullie 1925) The same formation is [[gml|vortellen]] and [[gmh|verteln]], and Vercoullie compares [[osx|fartellian]].^(MNW)^(Vercoullie 1925)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A Limburg glossary of about 1240 renders Latin ''recensere'' “to enumerate” and ''narrare'' “to narrate” with ''vertellen''.^(VMNW)^(EWN) In a romance of 1260–1280, ''Alse her walewain sine auenture … hadde vertelt'' means “when Sir Walewein had told his adventure”.^(EWN)^(VMNW)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Middle Dutch ''vertellen'' meant “to enumerate”, “to narrate”, “to describe”, “to reveal” and “to say”.^(VMNW) From ''tellen'' “to count” it also meant “to count again”, as of a merchant who doubts the count of his herring (1446), and “to ponder”.^(MNW) In early modern Dutch the main senses were “to narrate in detail” (from 1506) and “to inform, let know”, and a 1573 dictionary has reflexive ''zich vertellen'', to miscount.^(WNT) An old sense “to pay out” is recorded in 1658.^(WNT) ''Fabeltjes vertellen'' is to tell someone tall stories.^(Van Dale 2014)

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+ The verb was borrowed into Danish ([[m|da|fortælle]]), Norwegian ([[m|no|fortelle]]) and Swedish ([[m|sv|förtälja]]), from Dutch or Low German, into Sranan Tongo as [[m|srn|ferteri]], whence Surinamese Javanese ''fertéri'', and into Negerhollands, Berbice Dutch and Javindo.^(Van der Sijs 2010)^(Wiktionary) It lives on in Afrikaans [[m|af|vertel]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1240 – ''Vertellen'' glosses Latin ''recensere'' and ''narrare'' in a Limburg glossary.^(VMNW)^(EWN)

+ * 1260–1280 – ''Vertelt'' “told” of an adventure, in a romance.^(EWN)^(VMNW)

+ * 1446 – ''Vertellen'' “to count again” of herring.^(MNW)

+ * 1506 – The earliest quotation in the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, “to narrate”.^(WNT)

+ * 1573 – ''Vertellen'' “to miscount” in a dictionary.^(WNT)

+ * 1658 – ''Vertellen'' “to pay out”.^(WNT)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|tell]], [[m|en|narrate]], recount: ''Opa vertelde over de oorlog.''^(Van Dale 2014)^(WNT)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To tell, inform, let someone know: ''Wie heeft je dat verteld?''^(WNT)^(Van Dale 2014)

+ # ''(reflexive)'' To [[m|en|miscount]].^(Wiktionary)^(WNT)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[verteller]]

+ * [[vertelling]]

+ * [[vertelsel]]

+ * [[vertelster]]

+ * [[doorvertellen]]

+ * [[navertellen]]

+ * [[vertelkunst]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tellen]]

+ * [[vertalen]]

+ * [[de|erzählen]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}