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This is an incomplete list of Dutch expressions used in English; some are relatively common (e.g. cookie), some are comparatively rare.In a survey by Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language it is estimated that about 1% of English words are of Dutch origin.
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Notable dictionaries of the Dutch language include: Etymologicum teutonicae linguae, the first known Dutch dictionary published by Cornelius Kiliaan in 1599. It continues to be a unique source of obsolete words today. 't Nieuw Woorden-Boeck der Regten ("The New Dictionary of Rights"), published by Adriaan Koerbagh in 1664.
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Foreign-language influences in English. The English language descends from Old English, the West Germanic language of the Anglo-Saxons. Most of its grammar, its core vocabulary and the most common words are Germanic. [1] Around 70 percent of words in a randomly chosen piece of text [clarification needed] derive from Old English, even if English ...
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How about listing a source with the words. Some seem questionable, like stool from Dutch rather than OE stól. --Chroniclev 02:36, 6 December 2005 (UTC) []I agree, I have removed some of them, by checking out sources such as www.dictionary.com or www.etymonline.com, many of these examples seem to be Dutch cognates, rather that loanwords from Dutch.
The number of distinct senses that are listed in Wiktionary is shown in the polysemy column. For example, "out" can refer to an escape, a removal from play in baseball, or any of 36 other concepts. On average, each word in the list has 15.38 senses. The sense count does not include the use of terms in phrasal verbs such as "put out" (as in ...