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Doitsujin
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19 March 2014 at 11:48am | IP Logged

tarvos wrote:

By the way, Dutch has a fair few syonyms for the Germanic "geluk", namely "mazzel" (from Hebrew מזל, through Yiddish) and fortuin (from Latin "fortuna")

AFAIK, fortuin has a French origin.
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tarvos
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19 March 2014 at 4:12pm | IP Logged

Doitsujin wrote:

tarvos wrote:

By the way, Dutch has a fair few syonyms for the
Germanic "geluk", namely "mazzel" (from Hebrew מזל, through Yiddish) and fortuin (from
Latin "fortuna")

AFAIK, fortuin has a French
origin.

Pretty much 99% of Romance words in Dutch come from French. Which eventually come from
Latin. So in this case, I don't really care for arguing - but you are right that the loan
is not direct.

There are exceptions, like "museum".

Edited by tarvos on 19 March 2014 at 4:13pm
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19 March 2014 at 4:39pm | IP Logged

tarvos wrote:

Doitsujin wrote:

tarvos wrote:

By the way, Dutch has a fair few
syonyms for the
Germanic "geluk", namely "mazzel" (from Hebrew מזל, through Yiddish) and fortuin (from
Latin "fortuna")

AFAIK, fortuin has a French
origin.

Pretty much 99% of Romance words in Dutch come from French. Which eventually come from
Latin. So in this case, I don't really care for arguing - but you are right that the
loan
is not direct.

There are exceptions, like "museum".

Sorry, "Romance words" ?
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tarvos
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19 March 2014 at 5:34pm | IP Logged

Stefany93 wrote:

tarvos wrote:

Doitsujin wrote:

tarvos wrote:

By the way, Dutch
has a fair few
syonyms for the
Germanic "geluk", namely "mazzel" (from Hebrew מזל, through Yiddish) and fortuin (from
Latin "fortuna")

AFAIK, fortuin has a French
origin.

Pretty much 99% of Romance words in Dutch come from French. Which eventually come from
Latin. So in this case, I don't really care for arguing - but you are right that the
loan
is not direct.

There are exceptions, like "museum".

Sorry, "Romance words" ?

Words from Romance languages, i.e. Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, etc. Some 20-25% of
Dutch words fall in this category.

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