accent

nl-noun

accent n (plural accenten, diminutive accentje n)

accenten (plural)
accentje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: aksent

→ Indonesian: aksen

→ Papiamentu: aksènt

From Middle Dutch accent, ultimately from Latin accentus.

(orthography) accent (symbol to indicate spoken accent or the nature of a vowel)


manga

manga m (plural manga's, diminutive mangaatje n)

manga's (plural)
mangaatje (diminutive neuter)

From Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga), after an 1814 book by Katsushika Hokusai.


vita

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vīta.

lbor

Zijn vertaling van deze vita is onbetrouwbaar.

His translation of this vita is unreliable.

De eerste vita over haar leven werd in de achtste eeuw geschreven.

The first vita concerning her life was written in the eighth century.


bok

nl-noun

bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje n)

bokken (plural)
bokje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: bok
→ Xhosa: ibhokhwe

Negerhollands: bok

Sranan Tongo: boko, bokoboko

Aukan: boko boko

From Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-West Germanic *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.


fee

fee f (plural feeën, diminutive feetje n)

feeën (plural)
feetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: fee

→ West Frisian: fee

Borrowed from French fée, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French fae, from Latin fāta, from fātum.


leven

leven n (plural levens, diminutive leventje n)

levens (plural)
leventje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: lewe

From Middle Dutch leven. Gerund of the verb leven. The literary sense is likely a semantic loan from Medieval Latin vīta.

In zijn jonge jaren schreef hij een leven van Petrarca, maar dat is nooit gepubliceerd.

In his youth he wrote a life of Petrarch, but that was never published.

(literature) life, biography (particularly, but not necessarily a hagiography)


golem

golem m (plural golems, diminutive golempje n)

golems (plural)
golempje (diminutive neuter)

Ultimately from Hebrew גולם \ גֹּלֶם (gólem).

der

גולם \ גֹּלֶם

(folklore, fiction) a golem, a clay automaton


breve

nl-noun

breve f (plural breves, diminutive brevetje n)

breves (plural)
brevetje (diminutive neuter)


troop

troop f (plural tropen, diminutive troopje n)

tropen (plural)
troopje (diminutive neuter)


synecdoche

synecdoche f (plural synecdoches, diminutive synecdochetje n)

synecdoches (plural)
synecdochetje (diminutive neuter)

From Latin synecdoche, from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ, “receiving together”).


climax

nl-noun

climax m (plural climaxen, diminutive climaxje n)

climaxen (plural)
climaxje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed from Latin climax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax).

De climax van het verhaal was voor mijn gevoel wel erg snel afgelopen.

The climax of the story felt like it ended too quickly.

(literature) climax (culmination of a narrative's rising action)


macron

macron m (plural macrons, diminutive macrontje n)

macrons (plural)
macrontje (diminutive neuter)

From Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón), neuter form of μακρός (makrós, “long”).


zetten

zetten (infinitive)
zetten (gerund neuter)
zet (first-person present singular)
zette (first-person past singular)
zet (present second-person singular)
zette (past second-person singular)
zet (formal present second-person singular)
zette (formal past second-person singular)
zet (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular)
zet (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular)
zette (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular)
zette (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular)
zet (present singular third-person)
zette (past singular third-person)
zetten (plural present)
zetten (past plural)
zette (archaic present singular subjunctive)
zette (archaic past singular subjunctive)
zetten (archaic plural present subjunctive)
zetten (archaic past plural subjunctive)
zet (imperative present singular)
zet (archaic imperative plural present)
zettend (participle present)
gezet (participle past)

Afrikaans: sit

Berbice Creole Dutch: sete

Negerhollands: set, sit

From Middle Dutch setten, from Old Dutch setten, from Proto-West Germanic *sattjan, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti. A causative verb to zitten (“to sit”).


smurf

smurf m (plural smurfen, diminutive smurfje n)

smurfen (plural)
smurfje (diminutive neuter)

Changed from the original French schtroumpf as described above.


romance

→ Indonesian: romansa

(literature, music, historical) an emotional popular-historical epic ballad

(literature, music) a sentimental love song or love story


diamant

diamant m (plural diamanten, diminutive diamantje n)

diamanten (plural)
diamantje (diminutive neuter)

(diamond):

Afrikaans: diamant

→ Sranan Tongo: dyamanti

→ Saramaccan: djamátisítónu

(font size):

→ English: diamond

→ French: diamant

→ German: Diamant

→ Italian: diamante

→ Spanish: diamante

From Middle Dutch diamant, from Old French diamant, from Medieval Latin and Late Latin diamas, variant of Latin adamas.
The typographic use derives from Dirck Voskens, who first cut it around 1700 and presumably named it by analogy with the larger parel.

(uncountable, printing, dated) the size of type between kwart cicero (excelsior) and parel, equivalent to English brilliant and standardized as 4 point


tekst

tekst m (plural teksten, diminutive tekstje n)

teksten (plural)
tekstje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: teks

→ Indonesian: teks

(uncountable, printing, dated) a large size of type standardized as 16 point


accent grave

accent grave n (plural accents graves or accent graves)

accents graves (plural)
accent graves (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from French accent grave.


ster

nl-noun

ster f (plural sterren, diminutive sterretje n)

sterren (plural)
sterretje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: ster

Negerhollands: ster

→ Indonesian: seter

From Middle Dutch sterre, sterne, from Old Dutch sterro, sterno, from Proto-West Germanic *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *sternǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

(printing) an asterisk (*). (often used in the diminutive: sterretje)


persoon

persoon m or f (plural personen, diminutive persoontje n)

personen (plural)
persoontje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: persoon

→ Indonesian: person

From Middle Dutch persone, ultimately from Latin persōna. Doublet with persona.

(fiction) person, character, personality


voet

voet m (plural voeten, diminutive voetje n)

voeten (plural)
voetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: voet

Jersey Dutch: vût

desc

Negerhollands: voet, voeti, fut, futu, vut

→ Virgin Islands Creole: voet (dated)

Skepi Creole Dutch: fut

→? Sranan Tongo: futu

→? Aukan: futu

→ Saramaccan: fútu

From Middle Dutch voet, from Old Dutch fuot, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

Dit gedicht heeft een ritme van vier voeten per vers.

This poem has a rhythm of four feet per line.

Een jambische pentameter heeft vijf voeten per vers.

An iambic pentameter has five feet per line.

(poetry) foot (most basic element of a metre)


dwerg

nl-noun

dwerg m (plural dwergen, diminutive dwergje n, feminine dwergin)

dwergen (plural)
dwergje (diminutive neuter)
dwergin (feminine)

Afrikaans: dwerg

From Middle Dutch dwerch, from Old Dutch *dwerg, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz.
Compare West Frisian dwerch, German Zwerg, English dwarf, Danish dværg.

(fiction, folklore, fantasy, mythology) dwarf (small folkloristic humanoid)


els

els f (plural elzen, diminutive elsje n)

elzen (plural)
elsje (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: èls

From Middle Dutch elsene, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *alisnō, *alusnō. Related to *ēlō, whence Dutch aal, German Ahle, English awl.


spiritus

spiritus m (plural spiritussen or spiritus, diminutive spiritusje n)

spiritussen (plural)
spiritus (plural)
spiritusje (diminutive neuter)

desc

→ Indonesian: spiritus (“methylated spirit”)

→ Papiamentu: spíritùs

(orthography) a kind of diacritic used on Ancient Greek vowels to indicate aspiration or lack thereof. See spiritus asper and spiritus lenis


drukken

drukken (infinitive)
drukken (gerund neuter)
druk (first-person present singular)
drukte (first-person past singular)
drukt (present second-person singular)
druk (present second-person singular)
drukte (past second-person singular)
drukt (formal present second-person singular)
drukte (formal past second-person singular)
drukt (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular)
drukt (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular)
drukte (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular)
drukte (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular)
drukt (present singular third-person)
drukte (past singular third-person)
drukken (plural present)
drukten (past plural)
drukke (archaic present singular subjunctive)
drukte (archaic past singular subjunctive)
drukken (archaic plural present subjunctive)
drukten (archaic past plural subjunctive)
druk (imperative present singular)
drukt (archaic imperative plural present)
drukkend (participle present)
gedrukt (participle past)

Afrikaans: druk

→ Caribbean Javanese: nggedrig

→ Papiamentu: drùk, druk

From Middle Dutch drucken, from Old Dutch *thrucken, from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan, from Proto-Germanic *þrukkijaną.


triolet

nl-noun

triolet m or f or n (plural trioletten, diminutive trioletje n)

trioletten (plural)
trioletje (diminutive neuter)


kolonel

kolonel m (plural kolonels, diminutive kolonelletje n)

kolonels (plural)
kolonelletje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: kolonel

First attested 1548, from Middle French coronel, from Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), from compagna colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from a Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“going around”).

der

(printing, dated) a size of type between insertio and petit, standardized as 7 point


klinker

nl-noun

klinker m (plural klinkers, diminutive klinkertje n)

klinkers (plural)
klinkertje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: klinker

→ West Frisian: klinker

From earlier klincker, equivalent to klinken + -er, short for klinckletter (“sounding-letter”), a calque of Latin littera vocālis (“sounding-letter”). Compare Middle Dutch clinker (“announcer, crier”).

cog

(uncommon, orthography) vowel letter (character that designates a vowel)


metonymia

nl-noun

metonymia f (plural metonymia's, diminutive metonymiaatje n)

metonymia's (plural)
metonymiaatje (diminutive neuter)

From Late Latin metonymia, from Ancient Greek μετωνυμίᾱ (metōnumíā, “change of name”), from μετά (metá, “other”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).

der

(literature) a metaphor by which an inclusive term stands for something included, or vice versa; a metaphor in which a part is spoken of as the whole (hand for laborer) or vice-versa (the court for the judge)


goede

Substantivization of the adjective goed.


accent aigu

nl-noun

accent aigu n (plural accents aigus or accent aigus)

accents aigus (plural)
accent aigus (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from French accent aigu.


heffing

nl-noun

heffing f (plural heffingen, diminutive heffinkje n)

heffingen (plural)
heffinkje (diminutive neuter)

(poetry) a group of letters which are stressed in a poetic meter


dactylus

Borrowed from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos).


kabouter

kabouter m (plural kabouters, diminutive kaboutertje n)

kabouters (plural)
kaboutertje (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: kabouter

Possibly already from Middle Dutch. Equivalent to a compound of koof (from Middle Dutch kove, from Old Dutch *kovo, from Proto-Germanic *kubô (“hut, shed”)) and a less certain second element that might be hou (“friendly, favorable disposition”). Related to German Kobold.

(fiction, folklore) a (now usually benevolent) tiny folkloric bearded man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms or trees, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or brownie


dimensie

dimensie f (plural dimensies, diminutive dimensietje n)

dimensies (plural)
dimensietje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: dimensie

→ Indonesian: dimensi

Borrowed from French dimension, from Middle French [Term?], from Latin dīmēnsiō.

(fiction) dimension (plane of existence)


parel

parel f (plural parels or parelen, diminutive pareltje n)

parels (plural)
parelen (plural)
pareltje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: pêrel

Negerhollands: perl, peerl

From Middle Dutch perle, peerle, paerle, parle, presumably via French perle, from Italian perla, from Medieval Latin perla, plausibly a diminutive of Latin perna (“clam, pearl”).
Cognate with English pearl; alternative derivations from Latin birna (“pear”) or beryllus (“beryl”) lack plausibility; the letter sense is apparently popular etymology from nonparel, itself from French nonpareille. Its typographic use is from French perle, following the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time.

(printing, dated) the size of type between diamant and nonparel, equated with the English pearl and standardized as 5 point


trol

trol m (plural trollen, diminutive trolletje n)

trollen (plural)
trolletje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed from Norwegian troll or Swedish troll. Doublet of drol (“mythological giant”) and etymology 2.

(folklore) troll (mythological creature)


opmaken

opmaken (infinitive)
opmaken (gerund neuter)
maak op (first-person main-clause present singular)
maakte op (first-person main-clause past singular)
opmaak (first-person present singular subordinate-clause)
opmaakte (first-person past singular subordinate-clause)
maakt op (main-clause present second-person singular)
maak op (main-clause present second-person singular)
maakte op (main-clause past second-person singular)
opmaakt (present second-person singular subordinate-clause)
opmaakte (past second-person singular subordinate-clause)
maakt op (formal main-clause present second-person singular)
maakte op (formal main-clause past second-person singular)
opmaakt (formal present second-person singular subordinate-clause)
opmaakte (formal past second-person singular subordinate-clause)
maakt op (Flanders colloquial main-clause present second-person singular)
maakt op (archaic formal main-clause majestic present second-person singular)
maakte op (Flanders colloquial main-clause past second-person singular)
maakte op (archaic formal main-clause majestic past second-person singular)
opmaakt (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular subordinate-clause)
opmaakt (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular subordinate-clause)
opmaakte (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular subordinate-clause)
opmaakte (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular subordinate-clause)
maakt op (main-clause present singular third-person)
maakte op (main-clause past singular third-person)
opmaakt (present singular subordinate-clause third-person)
opmaakte (past singular subordinate-clause third-person)
maken op (main-clause plural present)
maakten op (main-clause past plural)
opmaken (plural present subordinate-clause)
opmaakten (past plural subordinate-clause)
make op (archaic main-clause present singular subjunctive)
maakte op (archaic main-clause past singular subjunctive)
opmake (archaic present singular subjunctive subordinate-clause)
opmaakte (archaic past singular subjunctive subordinate-clause)
maken op (archaic main-clause plural present subjunctive)
maakten op (archaic main-clause past plural subjunctive)
opmaken (archaic plural present subjunctive subordinate-clause)
opmaakten (archaic past plural subjunctive subordinate-clause)
maak op (imperative main-clause present singular)
maakt op (archaic imperative main-clause plural present)
opmakend (main-clause participle present)
opgemaakt (main-clause participle past)

Afrikaans: opmaak

From Middle Dutch opmaken. Equivalent to op + maken.

(transitive, typography) to format, to apply styling to


schriftteken

schriftteken n (plural schrifttekens, diminutive schrifttekentje n)

schrifttekens (plural)
schrifttekentje (diminutive neuter)

From schrift (“script, writing”) + teken (“sign”).


lettertype

nl-noun

lettertype n (plural lettertypen or lettertypes)

lettertypen (plural)
lettertypes (plural)


kantlijn

kantlijn f or m (plural kantlijnen, diminutive kantlijntje n)

kantlijnen (plural)
kantlijntje (diminutive neuter)


mediaan

mediaan f or m (plural medianen, diminutive mediaantje n)

medianen (plural)
mediaantje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: median

(printing, dated) a former Nederland paper size, 470 mm × 560 mm


non plus ultra

→ German: Non Plus Ultra

From Latin non plus ultra, the name given to the type by the Enschedé Foundry in Haarlem, who first cut it.

(printing, dated) a small size of type, equivalent to 2 point


korps

korps n (plural korpsen, diminutive korpsje n)

korpsen (plural)
korpsje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: korps

Borrowed from Middle French corps, from Old French corps, from Latin corpus (“body”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷrép-o-, *kʷr̥p-eH₂- (“body”). The neuter gender is after Latin corpus.

(printing) the thickness of a letter type


tittel

tittel m (plural tittels, diminutive titteltje n)

tittels (plural)
titteltje (diminutive neuter)


mystificatie

mystificatie f (plural mystificaties, diminutive mystificatietje n)

mystificaties (plural)
mystificatietje (diminutive neuter)

(literature) mystification (deception about the provenance of a certain piece of literature)


tweevoetig

nl-adj

tweevoetig (comparative tweevoetiger, superlative tweevoetigst)

tweevoetiger (comparative)
tweevoetigst (superlative)
tweevoetig (adverbial positive predicative)
tweevoetiger (adverbial comparative predicative)
het tweevoetigst (adverbial predicative superlative)
het tweevoetigste (adverbial predicative superlative)
tweevoetige (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
tweevoetigere (comparative feminine indefinite masculine singular)
tweevoetigste (feminine indefinite masculine singular superlative)
tweevoetig (indefinite neuter positive singular)
tweevoetiger (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
tweevoetigste (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
tweevoetige (indefinite plural positive)
tweevoetigere (comparative indefinite plural)
tweevoetigste (indefinite plural superlative)
tweevoetige (definite positive)
tweevoetigere (comparative definite)
tweevoetigste (definite superlative)
tweevoetigs (partitive positive)
tweevoetigers (comparative partitive)

From twee (“two”) + voet (“foot”) + -ig.


parabool

nl-noun

parabool m (plural parabolen, diminutive parabooltje n)

parabolen (plural)
parabooltje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed from Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), from παραβάλλω (parabállō, “I set side by side”), from παρά (pará, “beside”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”).


uitsmijter

uitsmijter m (plural uitsmijters, diminutive uitsmijtertje n)

uitsmijters (plural)
uitsmijtertje (diminutive neuter)

(theater, music, writing) finale, end, conclusion (of a work or performance)


spatie

spatie f (plural spaties, diminutive spatietje n)

spaties (plural)
spatietje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: spasi


hagiografie

hagiografie f (plural hagiografieën, diminutive hagiografietje n)

hagiografieën (plural)
hagiografietje (diminutive neuter)

From Ancient Greek ἅγιος (hágios, “holy”) + -γραφία (-graphía, “writing”).


paragraaf

paragraaf m (plural paragrafen, diminutive paragraafje n)

paragrafen (plural)
paragraafje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: paragraf (“paragraph”)

From Middle French paragraphe, from Latin paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos), from παρά (pará, “beside”) and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”).

der

(typography) section, a subdivision of a chapter, usually consisting of multiple paragraphs


rijmschema

nl-noun

rijmschema n (plural rijmschema's, diminutive rijmschemaatje n)

rijmschema's (plural)
rijmschemaatje (diminutive neuter)


slechte

Substantivization of the adjective slecht.


viervoeter

viervoeter m (plural viervoeters, diminutive viervoetertje n)

viervoeters (plural)
viervoetertje (diminutive neuter)

From vier + voet + -er, possibly a calque of German Vierfüßler.


accent circonflexe

accent circonflexe n (plural accents circonflexes or accent circonflexes)

accents circonflexes (plural)
accent circonflexes (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from French accent circonflexe.


populisme

Borrowed from English populism, but the French literary term comes from French populisme. First attested in the nineteenth century.

(literature) a French literary movement focusing on the common people


hyperbool

nl-noun

hyperbool f or m (plural hyperbolen, diminutive hyperbooltje n)

hyperbolen (plural)
hyperbooltje (diminutive neuter)

From Latin hyperbolē, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”).


krimi

nl-noun

krimi m (plural krimi's, diminutive krimitje n)

krimi's (plural)
krimitje (diminutive neuter)

(film, television, literature) a crime fiction or a crime series, specifically a German-language one


kolom

kolom f (plural kolommen, diminutive kolommetje n)

kolommen (plural)
kolommetje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: kolom

→ Papiamentu: kolòm

From Middle Dutch colomme, from Old French columne, from Latin columna (“a column, pillar, post”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”). Doublet of column and colonne.

der

(typography) column, i.e. vertical body of text


Witte Wieven

From a regional form of witte wijven (“white women”).

(folklore, regional) ethereal women dressed in white associated with fog, tumuli and dolmens


vissenrijk

nl-noun

vissenrijk n (plural vissenrijken, diminutive vissenrijkje n)

vissenrijken (plural)
vissenrijkje (diminutive neuter)

(countable, figurative or fiction) a fish kingdom or empire


Piet Snot

17th century. Originated as a form of Pier Snot in comedies and farces.

1691, Molliere (i.e. Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), School voor de jaloerschen. Blyspel, tr. from French, heirs of J. Lescailje (publ.), 32.
Nu ſta ik hier te kyken, als een uil in doods nood, of als den eerzamen diſcreten ſinjeur Piet Snot.

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

(fiction, personification) irrelevant person, a nobody


elfje

→ English: elevenie (calque)

→ German: Elfchen (calque)

(poetry) elevenie, a type of eleven-word free-form cinquain


rondeel

rondeel n (plural rondelen, diminutive rondeeltje n)

rondelen (plural)
rondeeltje (diminutive neuter)


geldezel

geldezel m (plural geldezels, diminutive geldezeltje n)

geldezels (plural)
geldezeltje (diminutive neuter)

Het ezelken begon te schudden, te schudden, en daar viel, blinkend en klinkend, een heele hoop voskens neer! « Zie, dat ezelken moest ik hebben; dat beestje zou mij rijk schudden! Maar kom; ik heb het al beet! Het middel is gevonden! » En de bazin nam haar eigen ezelken, dat goed op 't andere geleek, en bond het in de plaats van het geldezelken aan de krebbe.

1896, Alfons de Cock, Pol de Mont, Dit zijn Vlaamsche wondersprookjes. Het volk naverteld, page 191:

(rare, fiction) a donkey that magically generates money


slaapzand

(fiction) the sleepy sand thrown in people's eyes by the Sandman


klinkletter

klinkletter f (plural klinkletters, diminutive klinklettertje n)

klinkletters (plural)
klinklettertje (diminutive neuter)

(archaic, orthography) vowel letter (character that designates a vowel)


aankooien

aankooien (infinitive)
aankooien (gerund neuter)
kooi aan (first-person main-clause present singular)
kooide aan (first-person main-clause past singular)
aankooi (first-person present singular subordinate-clause)
aankooide (first-person past singular subordinate-clause)
kooit aan (main-clause present second-person singular)
kooi aan (main-clause present second-person singular)
kooide aan (main-clause past second-person singular)
aankooit (present second-person singular subordinate-clause)
aankooide (past second-person singular subordinate-clause)
kooit aan (formal main-clause present second-person singular)
kooide aan (formal main-clause past second-person singular)
aankooit (formal present second-person singular subordinate-clause)
aankooide (formal past second-person singular subordinate-clause)
kooit aan (Flanders colloquial main-clause present second-person singular)
kooit aan (archaic formal main-clause majestic present second-person singular)
kooide aan (Flanders colloquial main-clause past second-person singular)
kooide aan (archaic formal main-clause majestic past second-person singular)
aankooit (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular subordinate-clause)
aankooit (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular subordinate-clause)
aankooide (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular subordinate-clause)
aankooide (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular subordinate-clause)
kooit aan (main-clause present singular third-person)
kooide aan (main-clause past singular third-person)
aankooit (present singular subordinate-clause third-person)
aankooide (past singular subordinate-clause third-person)
kooien aan (main-clause plural present)
kooiden aan (main-clause past plural)
aankooien (plural present subordinate-clause)
aankooiden (past plural subordinate-clause)
kooie aan (archaic main-clause present singular subjunctive)
kooide aan (archaic main-clause past singular subjunctive)
aankooie (archaic present singular subjunctive subordinate-clause)
aankooide (archaic past singular subjunctive subordinate-clause)
kooien aan (archaic main-clause plural present subjunctive)
kooiden aan (archaic main-clause past plural subjunctive)
aankooien (archaic plural present subjunctive subordinate-clause)
aankooiden (archaic past plural subjunctive subordinate-clause)
kooi aan (imperative main-clause present singular)
kooit aan (archaic imperative main-clause plural present)
aankooiend (main-clause participle present)
aangekooid (main-clause participle past)

(printing, archaic) to lock (a forme) by means of quoins


Zevenslaper

Univerbation of zeven slapers (“seven sleepers”).

(Christianity, fiction, chiefly in the plural) one of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus


Vliegende Hollander

(fiction) Flying Dutchman (ghost ship; sometimes the clipper's captain)


zevenmijlslaars

zevenmijlslaars f (plural zevenmijlslaarzen)

Compound of zeven (“seven”) + mijl (“Dutch mile, league (5 to 6 km)”) + -s- + laars (“boot”).

compound

(fiction, folklore) a seven-league boot (boot in fairy tales allowing the wearer to quickly walk large distances)


haringkoning

/ˈɦaː.rɪŋˌkoː.nɪŋ/

(folklore) king of herrings (mythological large golden herring)


polyfoon

nl-adj

polyfoon (comparative polyfoner, superlative polyfoonst)

polyfoner (comparative)
polyfoonst (superlative)
polyfoon (adverbial positive predicative)
polyfoner (adverbial comparative predicative)
het polyfoonst (adverbial predicative superlative)
het polyfoonste (adverbial predicative superlative)
polyfone (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
polyfonere (comparative feminine indefinite masculine singular)
polyfoonste (feminine indefinite masculine singular superlative)
polyfoon (indefinite neuter positive singular)
polyfoner (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
polyfoonste (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
polyfone (indefinite plural positive)
polyfonere (comparative indefinite plural)
polyfoonste (indefinite plural superlative)
polyfone (definite positive)
polyfonere (comparative definite)
polyfoonste (definite superlative)
polyfoons (partitive positive)
polyfoners (comparative partitive)

(literature) polyphonic, containing the perspectives of many protagonists


postapocalyptisch

Borrowed from English postapocalyptic. Equivalent to post- + apocalyptisch.

De film gaat over huidkanker bij zombies in een postapocalyptische Costa del Sol.

The film is about skin cancer among zombies in a postapocalyptic Costa del Sol.

(fiction) postapocalyptic (after a future cataclysm)


bloedkaros

Daarmee staan zij waarschijnlijk dichter bij de volkscultuur, want niet alleen de kinderen in het achttiende-eeuwse Antwerpen maar ook de volwassenen geloofden in het fabeltje van de bloedkaros.

1983, Herman Roodenburg, “De autobiografie van Isabella de Moerloose. Sex, opvoeding en volksgeloof in de zeventiende eeuw”, in Tijdschrift voor sociale geschiedenis, volume 9, page 323:

In doing so they are probably more in tune with popular culture, because not only children but also adults in eighteenth-century Antwerp believed in the folk tale of the "blood carriage".

(historical, folklore) a folkloric carriage that would abduct children who were outside late and cause them to bleed to death, usually by maiming their limbs or slitting their throats; as a bogeyman it was widely believed in by the common people in early modern times and was frequently connected to stories about foreign monarchs collecting blood


klinkerbotsing

nl-noun

klinkerbotsing f (plural klinkerbotsingen)

(orthography) an instance or phenomenon where a sequence of vowel characters may ambiguously or misleadingly suggest a different pronunciation as a digraph; used as a term for cases where the official spelling prescribes the use of hyphens or diaereses


dodenbezwering

dodenbezwering f (plural dodenbezweringen)

(uncountable, now chiefly fiction, fantasy) necromancy (divination involving the dead; conjuration of the dead)

(countable, rare, now chiefly fiction, fantasy) act of necromancy, spell regarding the dead


dodenbezweerder

dodenbezweerder m (plural dodenbezweerders, feminine dodenbezweerster)

dodenbezweerders (plural)
dodenbezweerster (feminine)

(countable, now chiefly fiction, fantasy) a necromancer


katmens

Compound of kat (“cat, feline”) + mens (“human, person”).

compound

(rare, fiction) a catperson, fictitious creature combining human and feline properties


parabolisch

parabolisch (adverbial positive predicative)
parabolische (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
parabolisch (indefinite neuter positive singular)
parabolische (indefinite plural positive)
parabolische (definite positive)
parabolisch (partitive positive)

Ultimately from Latin parabolicus, from Ancient Greek παραβολικός (parabolikós). Equivalent to parabool or parabel + -isch.


wisselbalg

nl-noun

wisselbalg m (plural wisselbalgen, diminutive wisselbalgje n)

wisselbalgen (plural)
wisselbalgje (diminutive neuter)

From wisselen (“to swap”) + balg (“body”). Cognate to German Wechselbalg.

(folklore) changeling; an infant of a magical creature secretly exchanged for a human infant


wisselkind

wisselkind n (plural wisselkinderen, diminutive wisselkindje n)

wisselkinderen (plural)
wisselkindje (diminutive neuter)

From wisselen (“to swap”) + kind (“child”).


gedaanteverwisselaar

gedaanteverwisselaar m (plural gedaanteverwisselaars, diminutive gedaanteverwisselaartje n, feminine gedaanteverwisselaarster)

gedaanteverwisselaars (plural)
gedaanteverwisselaartje (diminutive neuter)
gedaanteverwisselaarster (feminine)

From gedaante (“shape, form”) + verwisselaar (“swapper”).


sapfisch

sapfisch (adverbial positive predicative)
sapfische (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
sapfisch (indefinite neuter positive singular)
sapfische (indefinite plural positive)
sapfische (definite positive)
sapfisch (partitive positive)

(poetry) Sapphic (pertaining to the Sapphic metre)

(poetry, historical) Sapphic (pertaining to Sappho)


heiligenleven

nl-noun

heiligenleven n (plural heiligenlevens, diminutive heiligenleventje n)

heiligenlevens (plural)
heiligenleventje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: heiligelewe

(literature) a saint's life (hagiography)


nieuwsblad

nieuwsblad n (plural nieuwsbladen, diminutive nieuwsblaadje n)

nieuwsbladen (plural)
nieuwsblaadje (diminutive neuter)


letterzetter

letterzetter m or f (plural letterzetters, diminutive letterzettertje n)

letterzetters (plural)
letterzettertje (diminutive neuter)


zingzeggen

zingzeggen (infinitive)
zingzeggen (gerund neuter)
zingzeg (first-person present singular)
zingzegde (first-person past singular)
zingzegt (present second-person singular)
zingzeg (present second-person singular)
zingzegde (past second-person singular)
zingzegt (formal present second-person singular)
zingzegde (formal past second-person singular)
zingzegt (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular)
zingzegt (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular)
zingzegde (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular)
zingzegde (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular)
zingzegt (present singular third-person)
zingzegde (past singular third-person)
zingzeggen (plural present)
zingzegden (past plural)
zingzegge (archaic present singular subjunctive)
zingzegde (archaic past singular subjunctive)
zingzeggen (archaic plural present subjunctive)
zingzegden (archaic past plural subjunctive)
zingzeg (imperative present singular)
zingzegt (archaic imperative plural present)
zingzeggend (participle present)
gezingzegd (participle past)

From zingen (“to sing”) + zeggen (“to say”).

(music, poetry) to recite accompanied by music or to sing in a manner close to regular speech, similar to recitativo or rap