omdat Dutch · revision 37180

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=1236, Middle Dutch (Ghent)}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ɔmˈdɑt/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''omdat''' (subordinating)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|dum|ombedat]], a shortening of ⟨ombe dat dat⟩ “for that (reason), that”, from the preposition [[m|dum|ombe]], the word [[om]], and [[m|dum|dat]], the word [[dat]], first a demonstrative pronoun and then a conjunction.^(EWN)^(VMNW)^(Wiktionary) [[gmh|umbe daz|t=so that]] is a parallel.^(EWN) The WNT compares [[fr|parce que]] and [[en|because]], which it also explains as shortened phrases.^(WNT)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ ''Ombe dat dat'' and ''ombe dat'' are recorded from 1236 in Ghent, in the senses “so that” and “because”: in 1257 a text gives as the reason ''ombe dat arnout de smet hadde en wif'', because Arnout the smith had a wife.^(EWN)^(VMNW)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ At first Middle Dutch ''omme dat'' meant “for that reason, therefore”, as in a text of 1265–1270; that adverbial use became obsolete in Middle Dutch.^(EWN) Followed by a clause, it meant “because” with the indicative and “so that” with the subjunctive, and the sense “so that” was lost along with the subjunctive.^(EWN)^(Franck & Van Wijk 1912) The word was written together from the 13th century, but that became the normal spelling only in modern Dutch; the WNT wrote in 1870 that it had often been written separately until the previous century.^(EWN)^(WNT) Van der Sijs dates the conjunction to 1637 after the WNT.^(Van der Sijs 2001)

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+ The States Bible often strengthens it with a preceding ''daarom'', as in ''Daerom om dat gy tot uwen knecht overgekomen zijt''.^(WNT) The rule that ''doordat'' gives a cause and ''omdat'' a reason was imposed artificially around 1860.^(EWN) Afrikaans has [[m|af|omdat]] and the Surinamese creole Kwinti borrowed the word.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1236 – ''Ombe dat'' in Ghent.^(EWN)^(VMNW)

+ * 1257 – ''Ombe dat'' “because” in a charter.^(EWN)

+ * 1264 – ''Omdat dat'' “so that”.^(EWN)

+ * 1637 – The conjunction ''omdat'' in the WNT's dating.^(Van der Sijs 2001)

+ * c. 1860 – ''Omdat'' and [[doordat]] are given separate tasks.^(EWN)

+ * 1870 – The WNT notes that writing it as one word has become usual.^(WNT)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Conjunction===

+ # [[m|en|because]], for the reason that: ''Ik bleef thuis omdat het regende.''^(Van Dale 2014)^(Wiktionary)^(WikiWoordenboek)

+ # ''(informal)'' As a result of, owing to (where the standard has ''doordat''): ''De weg was dicht omdat er een boom was omgevallen.''^(Van Dale 2014)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[om]]

+ * [[dat]]

+ * [[doordat]]

+ * [[opdat]]

+ * [[daarom]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}