voelen Dutch · revision 37170

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=1300–1325, Middle Dutch|origins=gem-pro *fōlijaną}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈvulə(n)/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''voelen''' (past ''voelde'', plural ''voelden''; past participle ''gevoeld'')^(ANW)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|dum|voelen]], [[inh|odt|*fuolen]], [[inh|gmw-pro|*fōlijan]], [[inh|gem-pro|*fōlijaną|alt=*fōlijan-|t=to feel]].^(EWN)^(Wiktionary) The same verb is [[osx|gifōlian]], found only with a prefix, [[goh|fuolen]] (modern [[de|fühlen]]), [[ofs|fēla]] (modern [[fy|fiele]]) and [[ang|fēlan]] (modern [[en|feel]]), all meaning “to perceive, to touch”.^(EWN)^(De Vries 1971)^(Kroonen 2013) Danish [[m|da|føle]] was borrowed from Middle Low German.^(EWN)

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+ The further origin is uncertain.^(EWN)^(De Vries 1971) Kroonen calls the word etymologically obscure.^(Kroonen 2013) It is not certain that [[non|falma|t=to grope]] is related by ablaut.^(EWN)^(Kroonen 2013) The EWN considers a link with [[cu|пальць|tr=palĭcĭ|t=thumb, finger]] possible, from ⟨*pōl-⟩, and rules out the often-cited [[goh|folma|t=palm of the hand]] and [[la|palma]], since Germanic ⟨*fōl-⟩ cannot come from the root of those words.^(EWN) Older dictionaries connect [[m|la|palpō|t=to stroke]], which the EWN thinks is probably not even Indo-European.^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)^(De Vries & De Tollenaere 2004|416)^(Franck & Van Wijk 1912)^(EWN)

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+ In Middle Dutch the prefixed [[gevoelen]] is recorded earlier and is more common.^(EWN)^(MNW) It was used above all of inner perception, of pain, a smell or the nearness of God, while the simple verb was used for touching with the hand.^(EWN)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first records date from the early 14th century: a text of 1300–1325 says of a child that, when it began to feel the urge of youth, it went out into the world and took a wife.^(EWN) A text of about 1400 has the physical sense: ''Hi voelde dat haer puls lijf sloech'', “he felt that her pulse still beat with life”.^(EWN)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Middle Dutch ''voelen'' meant to touch, to feel in body or mind, to hold an opinion and to understand.^(MNW)^(Wiktionary) The Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal notes that the word is well known but thinly attested in Middle Dutch.^(WNT) In the last quarter of the 18th century it took on a strong emotional value, which it kept in the Romantic period, and Impressionism gave it a new impulse at the end of the 19th century.^(WNT)

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+ A 1532 Bible translation has Christ say ''ic voele dat een cracht van mi gegaen is'', “I feel that power has gone out of me”.^(WNT) ''Leven voelen'', of a pregnant woman feeling the child move, is recorded in 1862.^(WNT) The proverb ''wie niet horen wil, moet voelen'', “who will not listen must feel”, said of punishment, matches German ''wer nicht hören will, muss fühlen''.^(Stoett 1923) ''Iemand de pols voelen'', first said of a doctor, came to mean sounding someone out.^(Stoett 1923)^(Van Dale 2014)

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+ In Jewish Dutch ''zich voelen'' meant to be full of oneself.^(Van de Kamp 2006) Danish and Norwegian ''føle'' may come from Dutch or Low German, and the verb passed into Negerhollands (''voel'', ''ful''), Berbice Dutch (''fulu''), Papiamentu (''fulá'') and Afrikaans [[m|af|voel]].^(Van der Sijs 2010)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1300–1325 – Middle Dutch ''voelen'' is first recorded.^(EWN)

+ * 1350 – ''Voelen'' “to perceive by touch” is dated.^(Van der Sijs 2001)

+ * c. 1400 – A text speaks of feeling a pulse.^(EWN)

+ * 1451 – A Holland text has ''ic voel in mijn maghe humore'', “I feel humours in my stomach”.^(MNW)

+ * 1532 – A Bible translation uses ''voelen'' for inner perception.^(WNT)

+ * 1862 – ''Leven voelen'', of an unborn child moving, is recorded.^(WNT)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|feel]], to examine by [[m|en|touch|alt=touching]]: ''De dokter voelde of het been gebroken was.''^(Van Dale 2014)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To perceive through the senses: ''Ik voel de kou in mijn handen.''^(Van Dale 2014)^(WikiWoordenboek)

+ # To experience an emotion: ''Ze voelde een diepe opluchting.''^(Van Dale 2014)^(Wiktionary)

+ # (reflexive) To feel, to be in a certain state: ''Hij voelt zich vandaag niet lekker.''^(Wiktionary)^(WikiWoordenboek)

+ # To understand intuitively: ''Ik voel wel wat je bedoelt.''^(Van Dale 2014)

+ # (intransitive) To give a certain feeling to the touch: ''Het water voelt koud.''^(Van Dale 2014)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[gevoelen]]

+ * [[aanvoelen]]

+ * [[bevoelen]]

+ * [[meevoelen]]

+ * [[voelbaar]]

+ * [[voelhoorn]]

+ * [[voelspriet]]

+ * [[voorvoelen]]

+ * [[voeler]]

+ * [[voeling]]

+ * [[gevoel]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|feel]]

+ * [[de|fühlen]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Iemand aan de tand voelen'' is to question someone closely.^(Van Dale 2014) ''Voel je hem?'', “do you feel him?”, is a colloquial way of asking whether someone gets the point.^(Van Dale 2014)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}