Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages

321 Pages·2009·6.76 MB·

by  Nicoline van der Sijs

cookies, coleslaw, and stoops
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Nicoline van der Sijs
Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops
The Infl uence of Dutch on the
North American Languages
Amsterdam University Press
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The publication of this book has been made possible by the support
of The Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union).
A Dutch version of this book is also available, titled Yankees, cookies en dollars.
De invloed van het Nederlands op de Noord-Amerikaanse talen, isbn 978 90 8964 130 4.
Translation: Piet Verhoeff and Language Unlimited.
Cover Design: Kok Korpershoek and Jonatan van der Horst
Book Design: Kok Korpershoek and Femke Lust
isbn 978 90 8964 124 3
e-isbn 978 90 4851 042 9
nur 624/632
© Nicoline van der Sijs, 2009
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this
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Every effort has been made to obtain permission to use all copyrighted illustrations reproduced
in this book. Nonetheless, whosoever believes to have rights to this material is advised to
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Contents
Preface 11
1. The Dutch language in North America 17
1.0 “The last real speaker of the dialect” 18
1.1 Dutch colonists and Native Americans 20
1.2 The Dutch language on the American East Coast: Low Dutch 27
1.3 Dutch place-names from the seventeenth century 51
1.4 Dutch and double Dutch 56
1.5 The American Dutch, American Flemish and American Frisian 61
of nineteenth- and twentieth-century immigrants
1.6 Dutch place-names from the nineteenth and twentieth century 100
1.7 The Dutch language and culture in the US, anno 2009 107
2. Dutch words that have left their mark on American English:
a thematic glossary 113
2.0 Introduction: sources and structure of the glossary 114
2.1 Food, drink, and stimulants 117
2.2 Flora and fauna 144
2.3 Household effects and everyday implements 167
2.4 Polity and citizens 180
2.5 The American landscape 201
2.6 Human traits and characterizations 212
2.7 Religion and religious festivals 219
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2.8 In and around the house 226
2.9 Trade 232
2.10 Money and units of measure 237
2.11 Children’s language 242
2.12 Transport by sea and land 256
2.13 Clothing 264
2.14 Miscellaneous 270
2.15 Dutch loanwords that did not originate from immigrants 276
2.16 Conclusion 280
3. Dutch infl uence on North American Indian languages 283
3.0 Introduction 284
3.1 Delaware Jargon 284
3.2 Amerindian languages that were spoken on the East Coast in 286
the seventeenth century
3.3 Thematic overview of Dutch loanwords 289
3.4 Alphabetical survey of Dutch loanwords 293
3.5 Conclusion 296
Bibliography 299
List of illustrations 311
Index to the American English words in chapter 2 317
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