herinneren Dutch · revision 37375

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1599, Kiliaan (as erinneren)|origins=gmh innern}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ɦɛrˈɪ.nə.rə(n)/^(Wiktionary)

+ * Informal: /ɦɛˈrɪ.nə.rə(n)/^(Wiktionary)

+ * Dialectal, informal, nonstandard: /ɦɛˈrɪn.də.rə(n)/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''herinneren'''^(Wiktionary)

+ The older form is ''erinneren'', which around 1900 was still heard in speech and often used by poets.^(WNT) Informal and dialect speech also has ''herinderen''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|de|erinnern|t=to remind]], borrowed in the second half of the 16th century, with the German prefix replaced by [[her-]].^(EWN)^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)^(WNT) The German verb is first known from Luther's Bible translation.^(EWN)^(WNT) It was formed with [[m|de|er-]], here in the sense of Latin ⟨re-⟩ “again”, on [[gmh|innern|t=to make mindful, inform]], a verb derived from the comparative ⟨inner⟩ “more inward” of [[in]] (compare [[innerlijk]]).^(EWN)^(WNT)^(Franck & Van Wijk 1912) De Vries derives it from [[goh|innaro|t=the inmost part]] and notes that the verb first meant making someone aware of something, and took the sense of [[la|moneō|t=to remind]] only from Luther's time.^(De Vries 1971)

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+ According to the WNT the verb came in through the eastern provinces: Kiliaan marks ⟨erinneren⟩ as Germanic, Saxon and Sicambrian.^(WNT) The change of ⟨er-⟩ to ⟨her-⟩ followed existing Dutch verbs with that prefix, as in [[herkennen]].^(WNT)^(De Vries 1971)^(Franck & Van Wijk 1912) Middle Dutch had already had [[m|dum|inneren|t=to remind someone of something]], in a Holland text of 1401 and in the Middle Dutch Sassenspieghel, taken from [[gml|inneren]].^(EWN)^(MNW)^(Franck & Van Wijk 1912)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Kiliaan's dictionary of 1599 has ''erinneren'', “to call back to memory”, the first Dutch record of the verb.^(EWN)^(Van der Sijs 2001)^(WNT) Van Veen and Van der Sijs date the form ''herinneren'' to 1644; the EWN's first record of it is from 1784.^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)^(EWN) The noun ''erinneringe'' is recorded as early as 1477.^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ For a long time the verb stayed rather unusual: it does not appear in the States Bible, and as late as 1712 Sewel wrote that some people disliked ''erinneren'', though Vondel had used it fittingly.^(WNT) The older construction put the person reminded in the dative: ''hunn' ongerijmtheit erinnert my een … puntdicht'' (1644).^(WNT)

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+ The constructions ''iemand aan iets herinneren'' and ''zich iets herinneren'' beside ''zich aan iets herinneren'' were long debated.^(WNT)^(Moortgat 1925) The WNT calls the construction with ''aan'' an imitation of German, first discussed by Weiland in 1802 and at first sharply condemned.^(WNT) Siegenbeek, Alberdingk Thijm and Bogaers rejected ''zich aan iets herinneren'' as a germanism, while De Jager defended it.^(Moortgat 1925) Belgian writers also used the verb in the French manner, with a thing as subject that resembles another thing, a use De Vreese condemns.^(De Vreese 1899)

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+ The verb was taken into Frisian as ''herinnerje''.^(Van der Sijs 2010) De Vries takes Swedish ''erinra'' from German.^(De Vries 1971) Van der Sijs derives it from Dutch or Low German.^(Van der Sijs 2010) Afrikaans has [[m|af|herinner]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1401 – Middle Dutch ''inneren'' “to remind, prove to someone” in a Holland text.^(MNW)

+ * 1477 – The noun ''erinneringe'' is recorded.^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)

+ * 1599 – Kiliaan gives ''erinneren''.^(EWN)^(Van der Sijs 2001)

+ * 1626 – ''Erinnert my'' “reminds me”.^(WNT)

+ * 1644 – The form ''herinneren''.^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)

+ * 1712 – Sewel notes that some dislike ''erinneren''.^(WNT)

+ * 1802 – Weiland first discusses the construction with ''aan''.^(WNT)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(transitive, with aan)'' To [[m|en|remind]] someone of something: ''herinner me er morgen even aan''.^(Wiktionary)^(WikiWoordenboek)^(WNT)

+ # ''(reflexive)'' To [[m|en|remember]], to recall: ''ik herinner me die avond nog goed''.^(Wiktionary)^(WikiWoordenboek)

+ # ''(transitive, with aan)'' Of things, to make someone think of something by resemblance: ''die geur herinnert haar aan de zomer''.^(WNT)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[herinnering]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[in]]

+ * [[innerlijk]]

+ * [[herkennen]]

+ * [[de|erinnern]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}