Search results for "Dutch people" - New World Encyclopedia
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- attempt, try, research, risk). Cognate with Dutch gevaar (danger, risk, peril ... , from the noun. Cognate with the archaic Dutch verb varen (to fear, to cause ...2 KB (321 words) - 00:07, 1 February 2024
- A -ja- derivation from the same base is found in Middle Dutch and ... food category. This could be why some people who self-identify as vegetarians ...2 KB (318 words) - 20:09, 31 July 2023
- Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule, Dutch school (school), Low German ... of persons, host, company), from Middle Dutch scole (multitude, troop, ...5 KB (618 words) - 19:17, 10 August 2023
- cleeding, cleiding, cleading (clothing), Dutch kleding (clothing), German ... #:A poncho is an item of clothing used by many people in Latin America. ...2 KB (223 words) - 19:17, 31 March 2024
- The Dutch Empire is the name given to the various territories controlled ... With Dutch naval power rising rapidly as a major force from the late ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- but most generally refers to very small people, often men, that live in ... or after dwarves were assimilated into Dutch and German tradition. What ...12 KB (1,842 words) - 17:48, 23 May 2024
- Jacob Arminius, James Arminius, and his Dutch name Jacob Harmenszoon (October ... thus came to criticize the prevailing Dutch attitude toward predestination ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 08:08, 18 March 2024
- southeastern part of Pennsylvania. These people came to be known as the Pennsylvania ... spiritual energy to the extent that the people who view them believe that ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 11:51, 22 January 2024
- purposes by some American indigenous people. A contraction of the Algonquian ... "wampum keeper," who stored his people's wampum and presented ...7 KB (1,160 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
- Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603 – October 10, 1659), was a Dutch seafarer ... humanity at the center of the world, which people now wanted to understand ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- The name may be related to the Dutch word "dodaars" ... language since at least 1628, and the Dutch are not thought to have reached ...10 KB (1,436 words) - 11:03, 2 August 2023
- nearly five centuries ago at the port. The Dutch, more than three centuries ... it looks new and polished. Today many Dutch people who still own most of ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or ... The VOC's territories became the Dutch East Indies and were expanded ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- There were also translations into German, Dutch, Spanish and Czech.Wilson ... blockbook editions, two Latin and two in Dutch, and then in 16 incunabulum ...10 KB (1,439 words) - 19:13, 7 February 2023
- merked, marked, market (market), Middle Dutch market, marct (market), Old ... # A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at ...3 KB (423 words) - 22:55, 28 September 2023
- of individual peace treaties signed in the Dutch city of Utrecht in March ... Great Britain, the Duke of Savoy, and the Dutch Republic on the other. ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 15:00, 2 May 2023
- Johan Huizinga (December 7, 1872 – February 1, 1945) was a Dutch ... until becoming the professor of general and Dutch history at Groningen University ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:44, 5 April 2024
- authority did not exist. The Sinhalese people have preserved that tradition ... invasions by the Portuguese and the Dutch in the sixteenth, seventeenth ...14 KB (1,979 words) - 07:07, 28 February 2023
- base. In April of 1662, he defeated the Dutch and claimed Taiwan, bringing ... On the northeast frontier, the Manchu people, who were descended from ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 15:22, 3 December 2022
- Gerardus Magnus, (1340 - 1384), was a Dutch preacher and founder of the ... texts and also literature in Flemish and Dutch, the local languages, making ...15 KB (2,329 words) - 16:50, 21 May 2024
