sorry Dutch · revision 37251

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1916|origins=ang sār}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈsɔ.ri/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sorry'''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|en|sorry|t=I'm sorry]], short for [[m|en|I'm sorry|alt=I am sorry]], recorded as an apology in English in 1834.^(EWN)^(WNT)^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997) The English adjective meant “worried, grieved, regretful” and continues [[ang|sārig]], a derivative of [[m|ang|sār|t=pain, grief]], the word that corresponds to Dutch [[zeer]].^(EWN)^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)

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+ The Old English adjective has cognates in [[dum|serich]], [[osx|sērag]], [[goh|sērag]] and [[fy|searich]], all meaning “sad, sorry”, from [[gem-pro|*sairagaz]].^(EWN)^(Wiktionary)^(MNW) The Middle Dutch word lives on in the dialect word [[zeerig]].^(MNW)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The oldest Dutch record is from the weekly De Groene Amsterdammer of 1916: ''we zegge “sorry” als we elkaar op de teenen trappen'', “we say ‘sorry’ when we tread on each other's toes”.^(EWN) The Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal has its first quotation from 1931.^(WNT)^(Van der Sijs 2001)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The word came in as a quick apology for a small offence and as a polite “excuse me”, the two senses the dictionaries still give.^(EWN)^(Van Dale 2014)^(Wiktionary) Van Dale records the phrases ''sorry dat ik besta'', with which someone presents himself, often ironically, as superfluous, and ''sorry dat ik het zeg'', which softens a blunt remark.^(Van Dale 2014) Recent compounds include ''sorrycultuur'' and ''sorrydemocratie''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ From Dutch the word passed into Papiamentu [[m|pap|sòri]] and the Malay of Manado.^(Van der Sijs 2010)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1834 – English ''sorry'' as a short apology.^(EWN)

+ * 1916 – Dutch ''sorry'' is first recorded, in De Groene Amsterdammer.^(EWN)

+ * 1931 – The first quotation in the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal.^(WNT)^(Van der Sijs 2001)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Interjection===

+ # [[m|en|sorry]], expressing [[m|en|regret]]: ''Sorry, ik was het vergeten.''^(Van Dale 2014)^(Wiktionary)^(WikiWoordenboek)

+ # [[m|en|pardon|alt=Pardon]], excuse me.^(Van Dale 2014)^(WNT)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sorrycultuur]]

+ * [[sorrydemocratie]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[zeer]]

+ * [[zeerig]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}