The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

Foreign language covers of " This Is My Song " contemporary with the Petula Clark hit version include: the Czech rendering " Obrať Se S Důvěrou " recorded by Helena Blehárová ; the Dutch rendering " Sjungas till sömns " recorded by Lize Marke to chart in Belgium ( Flemish Region ) at # 26 ( as a double A-side hit with " Lara's lied "); another Dutch rendering: "" Daar Straalt Eeen Licht ", recorded by the Netherlands-based group the Shephards ; the Polish rendering " Moja Piosenka " recorded by Halina Kunicka ; and the Serbian rendering " Ljubav Je To " recorded by Senka Veletanlić.

* Dutch: "" (" Songmaster "), published by Meulenhoff.

Caña competes, mainly in rural areas, with gin (" ginebra "— as in the Dutch kind of gin.

A tumultuous year at the Bauhaus, 1922 also saw the move of Dutch painter Theo van Doesburg to Weimar to promote De Stijl (" The Style "), and a visit to the Bauhaus by Russian Constructivist artist and architect El Lissitzky.

The word black comes from Old English blæc (" black, dark ", also, " ink "), from Proto-Germanic * blakkaz (" burned "), from Proto-Indo-European * bhleg-(" to burn, gleam, shine, flash "), from base * bhel-(" to shine "), related to Old Saxon blak (" ink "), Old High German blah (" black "), Old Norse blakkr (" dark "), Dutch blaken (" to burn "), and Swedish bläck (" ink ").

Black supplanted the wonted Old English word sweart (" black, dark "), which survives as swart, swarth, and swarthy ( compare German schwarz and Dutch zwart, " black ").

The myth was perpetuated by Romeyn de Hooghe's Spiegel van Staat der Vereenigden Nederlanden (" Mirror of the State of the United Netherlands ", 1706 ), which also ran to many editions, and it was revived in the atmosphere of Romantic nationalism in the late eighteenth-century reforms that saw a short-lived Batavian Republic and, in the colony of the Dutch East Indies, a capital ( now Jakarta ) that was named Batavia.

The Dutch explorer and entrepreneur David de Vries gives the first mention of it in his journal for the year 1642 (" the Wickquasgeck Road over which the Indians passed daily ").

For example, consider English starve and Dutch sterven or German sterben (" to die "); these three words all derive from the same Proto-Germanic root, * sterƀ-(" die ").

' Rare ' in English means " uncommon ", while raar in Dutch means " strange ", and similarly rar in Swedish means " rare " (" sällsynt ", SAOL ) as well as the more common meaning " nice ", " cute ", " dear " or " sweet ", but in neighboring Norwegian: " peculiar " or " awkward ".

Duits in Dutch refers to the language spoken in Germany (" Duitsland ").

Dutch eiland (" island "), German Eiland (" small island ")).

A large portion of Dutch aid funds also are channeled through private (" co-financing ") organizations that have almost total autonomy in choice of projects.

Natural resources can add substantial's to a country's wealth, however a sudden inflow of money caused by a resource boom can create social problems including inflation harming other industries (" Dutch disease ") and corruption, leading to inequality and underdevelopment, this is known as the " resource curse ".

The " Acoustical professional " turntable ( earlier marketed under Dutch " Jobo prof ") of the 1960s however possessed an expensive German drive motor, the " Pabst Aussenläufer " (" Pabst outrunner ").

Tax records exist from 1366 for Leuven's Den Horen (" The horn " in Dutch / Flemish ) Brewery.

The former Dutch colony of Netherlands East Indies (" Nederlands-Indië ", now Indonesia ) has left its mark on The Hague.

This division is reflected in the local accent: The more affluent citizens are usually called " Hagenaars " and speak so-called " bekakt Haags " (" Bekakt " is Dutch for " posh " or " stuck-up ").

* 30 April: " Koninginnedag " (" Queen's Day ") is a Dutch national holiday held on the birthday of former Queen Juliana.

* The third Tuesday in September: " Prinsjesdag " ( literally " Prince's Day ") is the Dutch State Opening of Parliament when the Queen reads the " speech from the throne " (" Troonrede ").

This abbreviation stands for the Dutch title doctorandus Latin for " he who should become a doctor " ( female form is " doctoranda ").

Another example is the word gift, which in English and Dutch means a " present " but in German and the Scandinavian languages means " poison " ( the Swedish word for " gift " being gåva, related to the verb " to give ").

This meaning, of unknown origin, is common among West Germanic languages ( cf: Old Frisian kniucht, Dutch knecht, Danish knægt, Swedish knekt, Norwegian knekt, Middle High German kneht, all meaning " boy, youth, lad ", as well as German Knecht " servant, bondsman, vassal ").

* A second theory concerns the fact that Adriaen Block, during his expeditions in the 1610s, passed by Aquidneck, described in a 1625 account of his travels as " an island of reddish appearance " ( in 17th-century Dutch, " een rodlich Eylande ").

The Dutch female first name " Saskia " originally meant " A Saxon woman " ( alteration of " Saxia ").

Several other names for related or similar dishes existed in Europe, such as the 13th century Danish hwit moos (" white mush "), the Anglo-Norman blanc desirree (" white Syrian dish ") and Dutch calijs ( from Latin colare, " to strain ").

It was one of the largest demonstrations in Belgium's history and was called the " White March " ( French: " Marche Blanche ", Dutch: " Witte Mars ").

In 1603, the first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia was established in Banten, West Java and in 1611, another was established at Jayakarta ( later " Batavia " and then " Jakarta ").

Hieronymus Bosch was born Jheronimus ( or Joen, respectively the Latin and Middle Dutch form of the name " Jerome ") van Aken ( meaning " from Aachen ").

For example, the modern German, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Turkish and Hungarian terms are respectively Kaiserschnitt, kejsersnit, keizersnede, kejsarsnitt, sezeryan and császármetszés ( literally: " Emperor's cut ").

German immigrants in the Pennsylvania Dutch area told their children about the " Osterhase " ( sometimes spelled " Oschter Haws ").

The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in the area on the western end of Long Island, also inhabited by a Native American people, the Lenape ( often referred to in contemporary colonial documents by the Lenape place-name for one of the larger native settlements :" Canarsee ").

For instance, German (" Ich habe einen Fuchs im Wald gesehen "-*" I have a fox in-the woods seen "), Dutch (" Hans vermoedde dat Jan Piet Marie zag leren zwemmen "-*" Hans suspected that Jan Piet Marie saw teach swim ") and Welsh (" Mae < nowiki >'</ nowiki > r gwirio sillafu wedi ' i gwblhau "-*" Is the checking spelling after its to complete ").

The Dutch name for the town, Rijsel, has the same meaning (" Ryssel " in French Flemish, from " ter Yssel " meaning " to / at the island ").

The motto can also be interpreted as a Brussels dialect rendering of the Dutch phrase " Hier ben ik, hier blijf ik " (" Here I am, here I stay ").

It is, in turn, thought to have inspired early Dutch settlers of the Hudson Valley region in New York to name the Wallkill River after it ( Waalkil = " Waal Creek ").

" According to Walter William Skeat, the term schooner comes from scoon, while the sch spelling comes from the later adoption of the Dutch and German spellings (" Schoner ").

The "" (" Song of Germany ", ; also known as "" or " The Song of the Germans "), has been used wholly or partially as the national anthem of Germany since 1922.

The reverse of the medal has the motto taken from the Great Seal of the United States, "" (" He Has Favored Our Undertakings ") and the date "" ( 1782 ) which is the date of America's first decoration, the Badge of Military Merit, now known as the Purple Heart.

Songs from The Threepenny Opera have been widely covered and become standards, most notably "" (" The Ballad of Mack the Knife ") and "" (" Pirate Jenny ").

A common example of non-systematic transliteration is the phrase book used by visitors to countries with different languages, even if written in the same characters ; for example Spanish "" (" Is there someone who speaks English?

He famously declared "" (" Peace must be made between Christians ").

As a proof text, at least in regard to Shemini Atzeret evening, the Gemara brings the text at Deuteronomy 16: 15: "" (" v ' hayyita akh sameaḥ ", " and you shall be completely happy ").

The Chinese name of the island, "" (" Taiwan "), derives from an aboriginal term ; in the past ( from the 16th century ), the island has been called " Formosa " ( from Portuguese: Ilha Formosa, " Beautiful Island ") by the west.

The RAE's emblem is a fiery crucible, and its motto is "" (" cleans, sets, and casts splendour ").

* Telugu: "" అ ం బరచ ుం బ ి త ం"" (" aMbaracuMbitaM ")

The first known use of alphabetic sampi in writing native Greek words is an inscription found on a silver plate in Ephesus, which has the words "" (" four ") and "" (" forty ") spelled with sampi ( cf.

On a late 6th century bronze plate from Miletus dedicated to the sanctuary of Athena at Assesos, the spelling "" (" to Athena of Assessos ") has been identified.

* "" (" a. u.

In parts of the printed edition of this cantata there appeared the song K. 623a "" (" Let us with joined hands ").

* Chinese: "" (" Ender's Shadow ").

* Czech: "" (" Ender's Shadow ").

* Hebrew: "" (" Ender's Shadow ").