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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈdɔlɑr/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dollar''' ''m'' (plural dollars, diminutive dollartje n)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|en|dollar]], an English word earlier also spelled ⟨daler⟩, which came from the Low German or early modern Dutch coin name [[m|nds|daler]].^(EWN)^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997) That is the same word as [[daalder]]: it comes from [[de|Taler]], short for [[m|de|Joachimstaler]], a silver coin struck from 1520 from the silver of the mine at Joachimsthal in Bohemia, now Jáchymov.^(EWN)^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)

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+ Until the 18th century the colonists in North America used many kinds of coin, among them, from 1620, many Dutch silver lion dalers, which in Dutch were still called ⟨dalers⟩ without ⟨d⟩ at the end of the 17th century; in English they were lion dollars.^(EWN) The Spanish pesos used in the West Indies trade were then called Spanish dollars, and in 1785 the word became the name of the first official American coin.^(EWN) The ⟨o⟩ spelling reflects early modern English, where short /o/ was pronounced without lip rounding and sounded like an /a/;^(EWN) American English kept that pronunciation, so it is still close to the early modern Dutch word.^(EWN)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The EWN's first record is from 1821, but an earlier one is a report in a newspaper of The Hague of 1743 that a Spanish ship had 40,000 dollars on board.^(EWN)^(Van der Sijs 2001) From the start it meant the coin and unit of account of English-speaking countries.^(Van der Sijs 2001)^(WikiWoordenboek)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal (1912) defines the dollar as the standard unit of the United States and of some British colonies, worth about two and a half guilders, and also as a silver or paper coin of certain Asian states on the silver standard.^(WNT) Today it is the currency of the United States, Canada, Australia, Suriname and other countries.^(Van Dale 2014)^(WikiWoordenboek) Compounds such as ''dollarbiljet'', ''dollarstuk'' and ''petrodollar'' are recorded from the 20th century.^(Posthumus 1986)

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+ From Dutch the word passed into Indonesian as [[m|id|dolar]] and into Japanese as [[m|ja|ドル|tr=doru]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1520 – Silver coins are first struck at Joachimsthal.^(EWN)

+ * 1620 – Dutch lion dalers come into use in North America.^(EWN)

+ * 1681 – Dutch still calls these coins ''dalers''.^(EWN)

+ * 1743 – A newspaper of The Hague mentions 40,000 dollars on a Spanish ship.^(EWN)

+ * 1785 – ''Dollar'' becomes the name of the first official American coin.^(EWN)

+ * 1821 – The date the EWN and Van der Sijs give as the first record.^(Van der Sijs 2001)^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|dollar]], the currency of the United States, Canada, Australia, Suriname and other countries, written $.^(Van Dale 2014)^(Wiktionary)^(WikiWoordenboek)

+ # A coin or note worth one dollar: ''Hij gaf de ober een paar dollars.''^(WikiWoordenboek)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dollarkoers]]

+ * [[dollarbiljet]]

+ * [[petrodollar]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[daalder]]

+ * [[en|dollar]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}