verhaal Dutch · revision 37409

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1383, Middle Dutch|origins=nl halen}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /vərˈɦaːl/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''verhaal''' ''n'' (plural verhalen, diminutive verhaaltje n)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|dum|verhael]], [[der|dum|verhalen|t=to fetch back; to repeat, report]].^(Wiktionary)^(WNT)^(EWN) The EWN distinguishes the verb meaning “to fetch back, get redress” from the one meaning “to tell”, but takes them as originally the same, formed with [[ver-]] from [[halen|t=to fetch]].^(EWN) The sense “to tell” grew out of “to report, give one's account”, that is “to fetch back in words”, as was done in court cases;^(EWN)^(De Vries 1971) De Vries thinks of the old legal practice in which an appointed person summed up a case.^(EWN)^(De Vries 1971) The noun followed both lines, “compensation” and “repetition, account”.^(EWN)

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+ Middle Dutch had both ⟨verhael⟩ and ⟨verhal⟩.^(MNW) The same noun is [[gml|vorhāl]] “story; compensation”, while [[ofs|wrhael]] means “compensation”.^(De Vries 1971)^(WNT)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The earliest record is from 1383, in the legal phrase ''verhall hebben op iemand'', to be able to claim damages from someone.^(MNW) A text from before 1414 uses ''verhal'' for the right to repeat a sworn formula in which one had stumbled.^(EWN)^(MNW)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In 15th-century law ''verhael'' was compensation (1436–1443), the resumption of a case on another day, and recovery: a text of 1470 speaks of men who saw no ''verhael'' after a defeat.^(EWN)^(MNW) From “repetition” came “account”: a dictionary of 1573 has ''verhael eens boecks'' “the summary of a book”, and in 1587 someone gives ''verhael'' of a person's poverty.^(EWN) By 1650 the word was used for a narrative of events, true or invented, and the Middle Dutch dictionary notes that the sense “free story” is younger.^(EWN)^(MNW) ''Romans of verhalen'' “novels or stories” is recorded in 1785, and the spoken tale in 1840.^(EWN)

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+ ''Op zijn verhaal komen'' “to recover, get one's breath back” is recorded from 1640; it goes back to Middle Dutch ''hem verhalen'' “to recover oneself”.^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)^(Stoett 1923) The word was borrowed into Frisian as ''ferhaal'', and Afrikaans has [[m|af|verhaal]].^(Van der Sijs 2010)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1383 – ''Verhall'' “claim for damages” is first recorded.^(MNW)

+ * before 1414 – ''Verhal'' is the right to repeat an oath formula.^(EWN)

+ * 1436–1443 – ''Verhall'' means compensation.^(EWN)

+ * 1573 – ''Verhael eens boecks'' “the summary of a book” is recorded.^(EWN)

+ * 1640 – ''Op zijn verhaal komen'' “to recover” is first recorded.^(EWN)^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)

+ * 1650 – ''Verhaal'' is used for a narrative of events.^(EWN)

+ * 1785 – ''Romans of verhalen'' “novels or stories” is recorded.^(EWN)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|story]], an account of real or invented events: ''Opa vertelde een spannend verhaal over de storm.''^(Van Dale 2014)^(Wiktionary)^(WikiWoordenboek)

+ # ''(law)'' [[m|en|redress]], compensation claimed for damage suffered.^(Van Dale 2014)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[horrorverhaal]]

+ * [[kinderverhaal]]

+ * [[liefdesverhaal]]

+ * [[spookverhaal]]

+ * [[succesverhaal]]

+ * [[verhalenverteller]]

+ * [[volksverhaal]]

+ * [[kerstverhaal]]

+ * [[levensverhaal]]

+ * [[reisverhaal]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[verhalen]]

+ * [[halen]]

+ * [[herhalen]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Verhaal halen'' is to demand compensation, and also to go and confront someone by whom one feels wronged;^(Van Dale 2014) ''zijn verhaal doen'' is to tell one's own account.^(Van Dale 2014)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}