plaats Dutch · revision 37289

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1232, Middle Dutch (Ghent)|origins=grc πλατεῖα}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /plaːts/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''plaats''' ''f'' (plural plaatsen, diminutive plaatsje n)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|dum|plaetse]], [[bor|fro|place|t=place, open space]], with ⟨ts⟩ showing that the word came through the Picard form [[m|pcd|plache]].^(EWN)^(De Vries 1971)^(WNT) The French word comes from [[la-vul|*plattea]], a form of [[la|platea|t=broad street, courtyard]] influenced by [[la-vul|*plattus|t=flat]].^(EWN) The Latin noun was borrowed from [[grc|πλατεῖα|tr=plateîa]], short for “broad street”, the feminine of [[grc|πλατύς|tr=platús|t=flat, broad]], which also lies behind [[plat]].^(EWN)^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)^(Franck & Van Wijk 1912)

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+ The same French word gave [[gml|plātse]], [[gmh|platz]] (modern [[de|Platz]]) and [[en|place]].^(De Vries 1971)^(Franck & Van Wijk 1912) [[got|𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍀𐌾𐌰|tr=plapja|t=street]] is an older borrowing of the Latin noun.^(De Vries 1971)^(Franck & Van Wijk 1912) A late Middle Dutch and Low German form ⟨plas⟩ may be a later loan of French “place”, when the ⟨c⟩ was pronounced /s/.^(De Vries 1971)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ ''Plaetse'' first appears as a name: a Willem ''place'' in a Ghent document of 1232.^(VMNW) As a common noun the word meant an open space in or by a house, a courtyard, and then a square; in the Rijmbijbel of 1285 the elders meet ''vp eene plaetche'', in a courtyard.^(VMNW)^(EWN)^(Van der Sijs 2001)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Middle Dutch ''plaetse'' meant a courtyard, a square, a battlefield, a cloth market, and after 1285 any place at all;^(EWN)^(VMNW)^(MNW) ''in plaetse van'' “instead of” is from about 1400.^(EWN)^(VMNW)^(MNW) Squares in front of churches or town halls were often called ''de Plaats'': the Dam in Amsterdam once had that name, and the square before the Buitenhof in The Hague still does.^(MNW)^(WNT)

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+ In the 16th century the word gained the sense “room or space that someone or something takes up” (1573), and with it ''plaats hebben'' “to happen” (1591) and ''plaats grijpen'' “to arise” (1657).^(EWN) The meanings “town, village”, “seat”, “position in a ranking”, “post, job” and “passage in a book” followed.^(WNT)^(Van Dale 2014) In Suriname ''plaats'' was used for a plantation, and in South Africa Afrikaans [[m|af|plaas]] became the word for a farm.^(Van Donselaar 1989)^(Wiktionary)

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+ From Afrikaans the word passed into South African English and into Zulu as [[m|zu|ipulazi]].^(Wiktionary)^(Van der Sijs 2010) Through Dutch or Low German it reached Danish [[m|da|plads]] and Estonian ''platsi''.^(Van der Sijs 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1232 – ''Place'' as a surname in Ghent.^(VMNW)

+ * 1285 – ''Plaetse'' “open space, place” in the Rijmbijbel.^(EWN)^(Van der Sijs 2001)

+ * c. 1400 – ''In plaetse van'' “instead of”.^(EWN)

+ * 1573 – ''Plaetse'' “room that someone takes up”.^(EWN)

+ * 1591 – ''Plaats hebben'' “to take place”.^(EWN)

+ * 1657 – ''Plaats grijpen'' “to arise”.^(EWN)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|place]], a point or area where someone or something is: ''de plaats van het ongeluk''.^(Van Dale 2014)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The proper place: ''Zet alles terug op zijn plaats.''^(Van Dale 2014)

+ # A town, a village: ''een kleine plaats aan de kust''.^(Van Dale 2014)^(Wiktionary)^(WikiWoordenboek)

+ # A seat or other space meant for one person or thing: ''We hebben twee plaatsen gereserveerd.''^(Van Dale 2014)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|position]] in a ranking: ''Ze eindigde op de derde plaats.''^(Van Dale 2014)

+ # A post, a function, someone's role: ''iemands plaats innemen''.^(Van Dale 2014)

+ # A paved yard behind a house.^(Van Dale 2014)^(WikiWoordenboek)^(WNT)

+ # A passage in a book or text.^(Van Dale 2014)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(dialectal)'' A square; also a farm.^(Van Dale 2014)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[plaatsen]]

+ * [[plaatselijk]]

+ * [[plaatsvinden]]

+ * [[plaatsnemen]]

+ * [[plaatsvervanger]]

+ * [[plaatsbewijs]]

+ * [[binnenplaats]]

+ * [[woonplaats]]

+ * [[werkplaats]]

+ * [[zitplaats]]

+ * [[geboorteplaats]]

+ * [[schuilplaats]]

+ * [[gemeenplaats]]

+ * [[verplaatsen]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[plein]]

+ * [[plat]]

+ * [[en|place]]

+ * [[de|Platz]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Plaatsvinden'' and ''plaatshebben'' mean “to take place”, and ''in plaats van'' means “instead of”.^(Wiktionary)^(EWN) De Vreese criticised ''plaats'' for a town square in Belgian street names, introduced after French ''place'', where older usage had ''plein''.^(De Vreese 1899)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}