minuut Dutch · revision 37343

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1470 (draft), 1485 (unit of time)|origins=la minor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /miˈnyt/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''minuut''' ''f'' (plural minuten, diminutive minuutje n)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|dum|minute]], [[bor|frm|minute]], [[bor|la-med|minūta|t=unit of time]] (the Philippa dictionary leaves open whether French was the intermediary), shortened from [[m|la-med|pars minūta prīma|t=first small part]] of a quantity divided by sixty.^(EWN)^(Wiktionary)^(De Vries & De Tollenaere 2004) The Latin word is the feminine of [[m|la|minūtus|t=small]], the past participle of [[m|la|minuō|t=to make smaller]], from [[m|la|minor|t=smaller]], which is related to Dutch [[minder]].^(EWN)^(Vercoullie 1925) The second division by sixty was the [[m|la-med|secunda]], whence [[seconde]].^(EWN) The Old French form was [[m|fro|minute]], earlier ⟨minuce⟩.^(EWN)

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+ A second sense, “first draft of a document”, comes from [[m|la-med|minūta|t=note, draft]], because such drafts were written in a small running hand, [[m|la-med|scriptūra minūta]].^(EWN)^(De Vries 1971)^(WNT) The English word [[m|en|minute]] is the same.^(EWN)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The sense “draft of a deed” is recorded in 1470.^(Van der Sijs 2001) The unit of time is in a text of 1485, which says that each minute is divided into many moments;^(EWN)^(Van der Sijs 2001) Van der Sijs dates it to 1494.^(EWN)^(Van der Sijs 2001)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The 60th part of a degree is recorded in 1614, in a position given as 19 degrees 9 minutes.^(EWN) By 1785 ''geen minuut'' could mean “not a moment”, of a young lady who will not get up a minute earlier.^(EWN)^(WNT) In the 17th century the word could also mean a trifle, a sense the WNT called wholly unknown by 1906.^(WNT)

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+ The sense “draft” gave the original of a notarial deed from which copies are issued, ''de minuut van de akte'' (1906), and the verb ''minuteren'' “to draw up a draft” (1549).^(EWN)^(WNT) The Malay of the East Indies took the unit of time from Dutch as ''menit'', and it spread to Javanese, Sundanese, Acehnese and many other languages of Indonesia.^(Van der Sijs 2010)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1470 – ''Minute'' “first draft of a deed”.^(Van der Sijs 2001)

+ * 1485 – ''Minute'' “sixtieth part of an hour”.^(EWN)

+ * 1549 – The verb ''minuteren'' “to draft”.^(EWN)

+ * 1614 – ''Minuut'' as a sixtieth of a degree.^(EWN)

+ * 1785 – ''Geen minuut vroeger'', not a moment earlier.^(EWN)^(WNT)

+ * 1906 – ''De minuut van de akte'', the original of a deed.^(EWN)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|minute]]: the sixtieth part of an [[uur|alt=hour]]: ''de bus komt over vijf minuten''.^(Van Dale 2014)^(ANW)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A very short time, a moment: ''heb je even een minuutje?''.^(ANW)^(Van Dale 2014)

+ # ''(geometry)'' The sixtieth part of a [[graad|alt=degree]].^(Van Dale 2014)^(WikiWoordenboek)

+ # ''(law)'' The original of an official document or notarial deed, from which copies are made.^(Van Dale 2014)^(WikiWoordenboek)^(WNT)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[minuutwijzer]]

+ * [[minuteren]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[seconde]]

+ * [[minder]]

+ * [[en|minute]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Een minuut!'' means “just a moment!”.^(Van Dale 2014)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}