woordenboek
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From woord (“word”) + -en- + boek (“book”), a calque of Late Latin vocābulārium.[1] Compare West Frisian wurdboek (“dictionary”), German Low German Woordenbook, Wöörbook (“dictionary”), German Wörterbuch (“dictionary”), Swedish ordbok (“dictionary”), Danish ordbog (“dictionary”), English wordbook.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]woordenboek n (plural woordenboeken, diminutive woordenboekje n)
- dictionary
- Synonym: dictionaire
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: woordeboek
- Negerhollands: woord-buk
- → Sranan Tongo: wortubuku (calque)
References
[edit]- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “woordenboek”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Further reading
[edit]- Matthias de Vries; Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864), “woordenboek”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001
- “woordenboek” in Van Dale Onlinewoordenboek, Van Dale Lexicografie, 2007.
