* Echt, an adjective in the German and Dutch languages meaning genuine or authentic.

* adjective: Aruban ; Dutch

" Trouw " is a Dutch word meaning " fidelity ", " loyalty ", or " allegiance ", and is cognate with the English adjective " true ".

However, almost the exact word exists in at least some of the Romance languages ( such as Portuguese-plenipotenciário ; French-plénipotentiaire ; Romanian-plenipotenţiar ; Spanish-plenipotenciario ; Italian-plenipotenziario ), with exactly the same meaning ; the Albanian word i / e plotfuqishëm sounds similar, although it has native roots ; other languages have their own equivalents ( for instance, German-Bevollmächtigt ( er ) ( adjective or noun ), Dutch Gevolmachtigd ( e ), Swedish fullmäktig, Norwegian fullmektig-all these Germanic cases are literal parallels ; Serbian punomoćan ( пуномоћан in Cyrillic ), Russian полномочный ( полный = full, мочь = to be in power, to be able ), Czech zplnomocněný ( plno = full, moc = power ), Slovak splnomocnený ( plno = full, moc = power ), Polish pełnomocnik ( pełno = of full, moc = power ), Bulgarian пълномощен ( pǎlnomošten ), Finnish täysivaltainen, Greek πληρεξούσιος, plērexoúsios, Turkish tam yetkili, and Tatar wäqälätle.

In modern Dutch, the word erg has become a fortifier equivalent to English very ; the same is true for the old-fashioned adjective arg in German, which means " wicked " ( espcially in compounds as arglistig " malicious " and arglos " unsuspicious "), but has become a fortifier in the Austrian standard of German.

Although Afrikaans adopted words from languages such as Malay, Portuguese, the Bantu languages, and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95 percent of Afrikaans vocabulary is ultimately of Dutch origin.

Bandanese Malay is famous in the region for its unique, lilting accent, but it also has a number of locally identifying words in its lexicon, many of them borrowings or loanwords from Dutch.

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 ").

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

Such word sets can also be called etymological twins, and of course they may come in groups of higher numbers, as with, for example, the words wain ( native ) wagon ( Dutch ) and vehicle ( Latin ) in English.

The word clock is derived ultimately ( via Dutch, Northern French, and Medieval Latin ) from the Celtic words clagan and clocca meaning " bell ".

His last words, as recorded by his friend Beatus Rhenanus, were " lieve God ", Dutch for Dear God.

Since English, German and Dutch have many of the same etymological origins, there actually are a great number of words in both languages that are very similar and do have the same meaning ( e. g. word / Wort / woord, book / Buch / boek, house / Haus / huis, water / Wasser / water ...).

In many European languages, words derived from this root take after the first meaning — English being a notable exception ( e. g. French and Dutch concurrent, German Konkurrent and Russian конкурент translate as " competitor " in English ).

Amongst European languages Dutch is an exception as it does not have in its native words, and instead ⟨ g ⟩ represents a voiced velar fricative, a sound that does not occur in modern English.

According to Den Store Danske Encyklopædi and Nudansk Ordbog, the name derives from the Dutch words kat ( cat ) and gat ( hole, gate ).

In European languages other than English the corresponding words for " sect ", such as secte ( French ), secta ( Spanish ), seita ( Portuguese ), sekta ( Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian ), sekt ( Danish, Estonian, Norwegian, Swedish ), sekte ( Dutch ), Sekte ( German ) or szekta ( Hungarian ), are used sometimes to refer to a harmful religious or political sect, similar to how English-speakers popularly use the word " cult ".

Sinhala has also borrowed words from other Indian languages and the colonial languages Portuguese, Dutch, and English.

Additionally many Dutch and Portuguese words can be seen in the coastal areas.

The German Christmas carol " Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann ", with words by Hoffmann von Fallersleben, also uses the melody, as does the Hungarian Christmas carol " Hull a pelyhes fehér hó ", the Dutch " Altijd is Kortjakje ziek ", the Spanish " Campanita del Lugar ," and the Turkish " Daha Dun Annemizin.

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In Dutch it became a labiodental approximant ( with the exception of words with -‹ eeuw ›, which have, or other diphthongs containing -‹ uw ›).

English, German, Low German, Dutch, Frisian, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Walloon, Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian and Resian use W in native words.

English uses W to represent and in two words ( namely ' cwm ' and ' crwth ', which both are derived directly from Welsh ), German, Polish and Kashubian use it for the voiced labiodental fricative ( with Polish and related Kashubian using Ł for ), and Dutch uses it for or.

An alternate theory is that is comes from the Dutch words wal ' shore ' and reus ' giant '.

Wildebeest is Dutch for " wild beast " or " wild cattle " in Afrikaans ( beest = cattle ), while Connochaetes derives from the Greek words konnos ( beard ) and khaite ( flowing hair ).

Other Germanic languages still have similar words for " duck ", for example, Dutch eend " duck " and German Ente " duck ".

The Dutch translation of John Cheese is Jan Kaas ; the two words thus would sound somewhat like Yahn-kees and could have given birth to the present term.

The position of the Roman Catholic Church is that Stein also died because of the Dutch episcopacy's public condemnation of Nazi racism in 1942 ; in other words, that she died to uphold the moral position of the Church, and is thus a true martyr.

Its most likely etymological origin is a combination of two older words, the Dutch krappen: to pluck off, cut off, or separate ; and the Old French crappe: siftings, waste or rejected matter ( from the medieval Latin crappa, chaff ).

The Dutch East India Company ( Dutch:, VOC, " United East India Company ") was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia.

In the same period the Dutch, continuing their conflict with the Habsburgs, began to carry out long distance actions in addition to their great success in privateering.

All the Armed Forces will carry out the plans which have been decided on to confront the Dutch attack < p style =" text-align: right ;">— General Sudirman, broadcast from his sickbed.

The sugar beet traffic ceased in 1959, and the last commercial boat on the upper river was " Shellfen ", a Dutch barge converted to carry of diesel fuel, which supplied the remote pumping stations until 1974, when the last ones were converted to electricity.

Henriette and the other prisoners were released on May 6, 1945 ; Henriette and four other Dutch NN prisoners ( Dries, Nell, Joke, and Fafa, a Dutch NN prisoner with severe arthritis ) had a chance to return to the Netherlands a few days later when the U. S. Army arrived with trucks to carry people through the Russian lines.

As the eldest son, it was assumed that he would carry on the family tradition ; therefore he was sent to attend classes in the Confucian classics at the domain academy, and took private lessons in rangaku, and in the Dutch language.

In order to reinforce Japan's capability to carry on the orders to repel Westerners, some such as the Nagasaki-based Takashima Shūhan managed to obtain weapons through the Dutch at Dejima, such as field guns, mortars and firearms.

As Lord Chancellor, he addressed the opening of a new session of the Cavalier Parliament on 4 February 1673, calling on parliament to vote funds sufficient to carry out the war, arguing that the Dutch were the enemy of monarchy and England's only major trade rival, and therefore had to be destroyed ( at one point he exclaimed " Delenda est Carthago "); defending the Great Stop of the Exchequer ; and arguing in support of the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.

The Dutch brewery De Koningshoeven produces the only Dutch Trappist beersbranded La Trappethat are able to carry the " Authentic Trappist Product " logo.

After Dutch Schultz's request of the Mafia Commission for permission to kill his enemy, U. S. Attorney Thomas Dewey, the Commission decided to kill Schultz after Schultz disobeyed the Commission by trying to carry out the hit after it had been rejected.

Dutch soldiers aid Mohawk allies to carry out Pavonia massacre, where Dutch soldiers played kickball with the heads of the women and children refugees they had killed.

A draft horse ( US ), draught horse ( UK ) or dray horse ( from the Old English dragan meaning to draw or haul ; compare Dutch dragen meaning to carry ), less often called a work horse or heavy horse, is a large horse bred for hard, heavy tasks such as ploughing and farm labor.

It was somewhat unfortunate that on the one occasion it was required for action in the Raid on the Medway, 1667, the Dutch fleet were able to sail right past it to attack the British fleet, to carry off the pride of the fleet the Royal Charles back to the Netherlands.

To carry out these punative expeditions, the Dutch allied with warrior bands from other south Maluku islands.

Beetles that carry the oak wilt fungus do not have chewing mouth parts-and need some other creature or physical damage to create open wounds-whereas beetles that carry Dutch elm disease do have chewing mouth parts.

The Dutch, allied with the Caribs of the Orinoco would eventually carry the struggles deep into South America, first along the Orinoco and then along the northern reaches of the Amazon.

An associate of the gang, Cirofisi's girlfriend Dutch Sadie was known to carry a butcher knife in her clothing, and she assisted Cirofisi in several muggings.

Dozens of merchants resorted to paying French and Dutch ships to carry their goods for fear of the Dunkirk Pirate ’ s vengeance.

Dutch Ceylon had two classes of people of European descent: those who were paid by the VOC and were referred to as Company servants ( i. e. employees ), and those who had migrated of their own free will to carry out their trade.