Actually the reason why the country is typically referred to as Holland is not because of that's where all the tourists go. The real reason is that centuries ago Holland was the most wealthy and important province, and all rich people lived there. So when these people started to travel the world on their boats, all of them they would say 'I'm from Holland', so the country became known as Holland.
I kinda wish we were taught how to say what the country itself calls itself instead of the anglized version of it. A few I thankfully know nowadays. Suomi = Finland/Finnish Deutschland/Deutsche = Germany/German Nihon/Nihongo/Nihonjin = Japan/Japanese(lang)/Nihonjin(Japanese people)
Well here is a few others: Norge(Noreg)/Norsk = Norway/Norwegian (The "Noreg" is the verision of the name used in Ny-Norsk(New-Norwegian)) Sverige / Svenska = Sweden/Swedish Danmark / Dansk = Denmark / Danish
I am Dutch, but we didn't gave ourselves that name. In The Netherlands (called Nederland from a Dutch perspective), we call ourself 'Nederlanders', so in English we already call ourself Netherish. So why won't you? :)
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@Paul Calixte That explains so much! Like 7 years ago I met a Spanish woman in germany and we were speaking English to eachother. I said multiple times that I was from the Netherlands and she had no idea. When I finally said that I am from Holland she instantly knew it... Though to be fair, that could ahve happened just as easily to an American :P
fun fact about holt -> hout. In Dutch we dropped the in olt or old we lost the l and often turned the o into an ou in general. You can still see this in English because the change happened after Anglofrisian and Dutch split. Old -> Oud Holt -> Hout Hold -> Houd Bolt -> Bout Gold -> Goud Cold -> Koud These words all mean the same, maybe with some nuance differences, or some extended meanings (bout can also mean 'leg', while bolt can be used in lightning bolt).
In the dutch provence of twente. Some dialect speaking people call germany pruissen also have heard the name poepeland. From the german word for doll puppe witch spuunds like poepe in our coutry but means shit. So poepeland sounds lik shitcountry
I say "never eat shredded wheat", shredded wheat being a shitty breakfast cereal old people eat. You need like 50 kilograms of sugar to make them bearable.
Flooding isnt actually a real problem at all, due to all the amazing waterworks we invented. One of our provinces was entirely claimed from the sea in fact. We are the masters of the sea, in fact so much so that dutch civil engineering companies are hired across the globe to solve flooding issues, like Jakarta and Venice to name a few
Many of my ancestors came from The Netherlands; I never knew there were quite a few Dutch surnames until I researched our tree and found many came over in the 1600s to America. Thanks for the video!
The fact that the name is 'Holland' is still used as the name of the entire country of the Netherlands, has to do with the Dutch golden age of the 17th century. The Republic of the Seven United Provinces of The Netherlands, also known as The Dutch Republic, was loosely collection of 7 provinces. Including Duchy of Guelders (Gelderland), County of Zeeland, Lordship of Utrecht, Lordship of Overijssel, Lordship of Frisia (Friesland), Lordship of Groningen and ... County of HOLLAND (roughly the provinces of North- and South-Holland nowadays combined) The people in those days were more attached to their province than to the Republic. The most powerful province was, of course, Holland, because of it's large merchant fleet. When those ships went abroad and people asked: "Where you from?" Their response will likely be "I am from Holland." So that name stuck in a lot of languages around the world, and nowadays often mean the entire country of The Netherlands. Bytheway: Lot of Dutch people now, will still refer to our neighbor in the west, across the North Sea, as 'England', but actually meaning 'Great Britain' or the 'United Kingdom'. England was, of course, our biggest economic rival in the 17th century and Great Britain, nor the UK didn't exist yet in those days. Bonus: Why do Dutch people yell at sporting events "Hup Holland hup!" (meaning: "Go Holland Go!")? Well, even in Dutch 'Nederland' is a difficult word to say fast or to singalong in a song. Also, a difficult word to rhyme and to make a compelling song about. 'Holland' on the other hand rolls off the tongue and so easier to put into a song. :D
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Name Explain just an interesting thing to mention is that the Dutch didn’t make it easy for England because the Dutch name for an old Dutch language is Diets. Also Duits was used to describe people in the area of Netherlands and Germany a long time ago and is still in the national anthem. And that is very similar to Dutch and Deutsch.
Hi, I'm a Dutchman here to add to the confusion. Accross various times and languages the Netherlands have among others been called: The Lands Over Here, The Lands Over There, Holland, The Low Countries, Flanders, Belgica, Brabant, The Burgundian Netherlands, The Habsburg Netherlands, The Seventeen Provinces, United Provinces, and Frisia. Sometimes several of them at the same time.
I do find that funny, but sadly, we were mostly all pricks back then and now their lack of linguists to tell them they were speaking a germanic language makes us look like assholes
+Timothy McLean I thought EXACTLY the same thing. +Sir Jaojao Yes, in terms of vocabulary, but language classification is also based on grammar and phonetics. And in both those areas, English is much more Germanic than Romance.
I'm finding that Teuton was actually either a very early usage to reference the Teutonic knights, or as to bring back the Teutonic knights as a derogatory term.
There is another part you left out-Frisia. I believe Frisia is older than the rest of the country and extended over the northern part of The Netherlands and Germany. Now it is the province of Friesland (west) and in Germany East Frisia. It has its own language-Frisian. Frisian is the closest to Old English. So I guess Old English was also a Germanic language. My maternal grandparents and paternal grandfather immigrated from Friesland, Netherlands to Friesland, Wisconsin. They were Fris/Frysk? but Mom would also say Dutch or Hollanders. They would speak Frisian, English, or mixed.
The dutch word for "dutch/deutch" dietsch is sometimes still used for a "Greater Netherlands" (Dietschland) (aka, Netherlands, Flanders and a teeny-tiny part of france. It's quite outdated now though. Also, another form/ archaïc form of "dutch" (Duytsch) was used to describe the dutch people around the 16th century, ending up in the national anthem ("ben ick van Duytschen bloedt") (am I of dutch blood). Only through language evolution it is now pronounced as "duitsen bloed" meaning german blood.
Ehm, I, as a Dutchman, have always learned ‘Dutch’ comes from ‘Diets’, an early name for the Dutch language. Could still be wrong, but that's what schools are teaching us.
Christian Takkebos Yes, I think that's right. But even 'Diets' looks very related to 'deutsch' and 'þiudisc'. In both German and Dutch the 'þ' or 'th' sound became a 'd' sound and 'sc/sk' bacame 'sch' (in Dutch it was further reduced to an 's' sound at the end of words). At least to my knowledge.
Diets(ch) komt vh middelnederlandse Diet wat volk moet betekenen. bv de naam 'Diederik' (Dirk) : rijk aan volk ook : (iemand) iets 'diets' maken = iets verduidelijken of iets zo uitleggen dat ook het volk (diet) het begrijpt.
Australia was briefly known as “New Holland”, which make’s sense since it was the Dutch who discovered it, and it’s also where “New Zealand” comes from, as Holland and Zeeland are Dutch provinces
With a Dutch dad and a Belgian mom I find it easier to call myself Netherlandish in English with the lack of a better word in Dutch. Also my name means “the people” what a coincidence
no the Bundesland stole that name it does not belong to it, the saxons were a germanic tribe living where today the "bundesländer" lower saxony, parts of saxony-anhalt and westphalia are, the bundesland "Sachsen" got the name because the duke of the saxons (Henry the lion) was cast down by the emperor and his family (the house of welf) lost the title to the count of anhalt, with whom it got to nowadays saxony where no saxon people lived at all. the finnish and estonian people use that name because of the saxon traders of the hanse who were the first germans they met
Saks comes from the germnic tribe Sachsen (or Saxon in english). That tribe also were the reason for naming the german Bundesländer Sachsen,Sachsen-Anhalt and Niedersachsen (lower saxony) and btw also Anglosaxon (which was an amagation of norther germany tribes from nowadays Netherlands,northern germany& denmark)
Even though the official name of our country is Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden (The Kingdom of the Netherlands), we call it 'Nederland' (singular) instead of 'Nederlanden' (plural). This is because 'Nederlanden' used to refer to the Dutch confederation of provinces in the olden days (The provinces were several lowlands.. Nederlanden!). But now that our country is a unitary state, we call it Nederland. ZIJN WE NIET EEN PIJN?
Fake news people don't believe this lie. As a official Zeeuw I protest ... Even if I would not call myself that I would be known as a Geus. If it had been up to the weak 'Nederlanders' they'd all be speaking Spanish still.
Name Explain just an interesting thing to mention is that the Dutch didn’t make it easy for England because the Dutch name for an old Dutch language is Diets. Also Duits was used to describe people in the area of Netherlands and Germany a long time ago and is still in the national anthem. And that is very similar to Dutch and Deutsch.
Amazing food: "Picture of stroopwafels" -When you know somebody did their homework on the Netherlands :P Those things are amazing ^_^ Being a Dutchman for 25 years straight now I must say though, I never really knew why everyone called us Dutch, but I do know we still get confused with the German so this makes alot of sense :P
In the early colonial period of what is now the U.S., William Penn, an English Quaker who organized the colony of Pennsylvania ("Penn's Woods") as a refuge for Quakers, also invited German protestants who did not accept the standard Lutheran theology to take refuge in his new colony. This included groups that survive today, such as the Mennonites and Amish. These people became known collectively in the U.S. as the "Pennsylvania Dutch," although they were German rather than Dutch. Prior to World War I, there were many Germans working in American vaudeville, getting laughs using "funny" German accents, etc. These were known as "Dutch acts". During World War I, Americans decided they hated everything German, and "Dutch acts" disappeared.
Susan Fuck Me Boots SHEDHDJAHRFWEJUIRWEFJNOIREWFJFKREJIWFREWJNKJFEWFKJWEJRFFRJNKEJWFWREJKNRJEWFNEFRJKNJ DONT CALL IT HOLLAND CHCJWEFRFUJOREIUJPREW (and i’m from the utrecht province, so not at all)
The differnce between the Netherlands and Holland is: we have a province(?) that is called Holland (North Holland and South Holland. It used to be 1 part but it broke up). Holland was very good in trade and so people went to call the Netherlands Holland but actually its just the Netherlands
The Romanian Atheist I think you could go in to more detail then that Buddhism - Buddha Which means the enlightened one Christianity - Christ which is the greek word for messiah Judaism- named after the people called "the Jews" which was named after the Kingdom of Judea around 800 BC that was named after the tribe of Judah, that was named after Judah. Judah was the founder of the tribe of Judah in the bible and his name comes from Hebrew meaning "praise (God)" Then there is the Holy books Buddhism's holy book "Poly Canon" - means "words of Buddha" Christianity's Holy book "Holy Bible" - comes from the Latin word for library Judaism's holy book "TaNaK" - Is an acronym of Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim meaning the law, the prophets, and the writings respectively
Nice video, but I'm gonna have to point out that it's not just the UK that referred to "all the Germanic people across the North sea" (Germans and Dutch) as "Dutch". In Dutch, we also used to have the word "Dietsch" with "Nederdietsch" (Low Dutch) referring to Dutch. Later this gradually changed into "Duyts" and eventually "Duits", which is how we currently refer to Germans. And actually, up until the 18th century, we referred to our own language as "Nederduyts" or "Nederduits" on some occasions!
Well, the Netherlands hasn't been around as an independent state for that long, but the Low West Germanic cultural area of "de Nederlanden" has been a "thing" since the middle ages. Flanders and Brabant and later also Holland (Dutch/Flemish culture dominated region) were very historically important regions of Europe long before het plakkaat van Verlatinghe was signed in 1581.
Yep. It's weird though. Apparently Dutch is *extremely* hard to learn for Foreigners but... Deutsch was hard for me to learn despite being Dutch, since Dutch basically ditched the Deutch (try saying that 10x in a row quickly) grammatical rules that were 'not necessary' and went from there. We have some strange remnants left, though.
Ghipoli True, in fact "Diets" was used to refer to the area where the Middelnederlands/Middle Dutch language, the direct precursor of the modern Dutch was spoken. Thats rougly the Netherlands, Belgium and a part of Germany. Diets translates in to Dutch in English and Deutsch in German and point out to the same area. Therefore, Deutschland and Deutschers, as they call their country and themselves, are actually calling it Dietsland/Dietsers and in fact falsely claiming they are dutch. Which they are not, the are Germans (Germanen, in Dutch) living in Germany or Germanie, as among others the english and the french seem to understand 🙃
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Bit late reply, but no. Duchess, Duke and Duchy come from the Latin word Dux (= leader/general). Dutch comes form the ancient german word þiudiskaz (= the people).
Never any relation to Duchy. However, Luxemburg 🇱🇺 is a Grand-Duchy and was part of The Netherlands 🇳🇱 till 1890.... But duchy has got nothing to do with Dutch. The British named the people from Holland / Netherlands wrongly Dutch....
@@maartenj.vermeulen900 Not really since back then we also called ourselves "Dutch". In this video he makes it seems like only the germans used the word "Deutsch" and the Brittish simply made the mistake to also use that for us. However, that was the old German word for "Folk" and in old Dutch we also used such a word. "Diets" (or "Duutsch" as was also used depending on where you were) is the old Dutch version of "Deutsch" that the Germans had. This is oversimplified but in the end the Brittish didn't name us wrongly Dutch.
Would like to add that Middle Dutch was spoken in various regions. Regions that now are in Germany and The Netherlands (at the time of Middle Dutch, The Netherlands and Germany were not the countries as we know them now). Middle Dutch had various dialects, but to put these different dialects under one umbrella, they called it "Diets". Diets = Dutch in English. Diets was called Dietsch or Deutsch by people of The Netherlands earlier. It wasn't until later Dietsch became Diets. To make it even more complicated: there was one part who referred to the language as Diets, and another part would call it Duutsch. All these similar looking/sounding names are a setup for confusion obviously. It's a bit more complicated than this, since for example The Netherlands wasn't a country. The provinces mentioned in this video were independent, basically their own country. Hence neighbouring regions had their variation (dialect) of Middle Dutch. The southern part called it Diets, the northern part called it Duutsch. Duutsch is not Duits which is Dutch for German. TLDR: Middle Dutch had different dialects. To give them one name, it was called Diets. Diets is derived from Diet which means "nation" (as in people of the country). So Diets literally means language of the nation (vernacular). So Dutch refers to Diets.
I'm a Dutchman from the Southern province North-Brabant (new video idea?) and thus definitely not from the Holland region. I'm happy you made this video explaining that most Dutch people, all folks in those 10 other provinces are not Hollanders. :)
Exactly, I think almost nobody outside of Holland is very pleased with it being marketed as Holland all the time :/ And yeah i love explaining that North-Brabant is along thesouthern border of the country haha. And that Flemish Brabant isn't called south-Brabant :P
I always thought that we are called the Dutch because the collective name for all dialects in the Netherlands was Diets which then became Dutch in English
The real answer to the question (in the title) is that the word 'Dutch' actually comes from Old Dutch (Duitsch), Nedersaksisch (Duuts) and Ostfrisian (Düütsch) to discribe what was spoken in the east of the Netherlands in medieval times. The actual Dutch language as spoken today originated from a mixture of (Germanic) Saxon and Frankisch.
I am an Afrikaner from South Africa. It is commonly believed that our language (Afrikaans) developed from the official High Dutch, but it seems to be much closer to Diets/Plattdeutsch. Most Afrikaners nowadays find it hard to understand Dutch (ABN), but that is due more to difference in accent/pronunciation than than vocabulory. Academically Afrikaans is classified as a germanic language in the dietse subgroup. Netherlanders often call it Zuid-Afrikaans, which is quite incorrect, because it is not limited to South Africa. South Afrikaans is a variant spoken in southwestern SA, more often called Kaaps (Cape dialect).
Actually another explenation where 'dutch' (which also refers to the language) is beacause in middledutch their language was called 'Diets' which ment 'for the people' (so instead of Latin for the upper class, Diets and eventually Nederdiets was a language for the people) this term Nederdiets went 2 ways: first Nederlands (Netherlands / Lower lands) and secondly to Nederdiets (Lower Dutch) the complete explenation is to complicate for a UA-cam comment 😜 (sorry if there are any mistakes in my English, I'm a Dutch speaking Belgian 😁)
a lot of words with origin ending in "olt" or "old" eventually changed to "out" in the Duthc language, ex. gold, bolt, hold turning into goud, bout, houd.
I'm actually a bit confussed by the 'holt' explanation... I just always simple saw it as Hol = hollow, hollow land, cause that part contains a lot of regained land from the see/rivers , so hollow ..
+romanvampire - don't be confused, look your cognate dictionaries up - you'll see that *holt* has its root in the Indogermanic *kel_- (endvowel missing), which means "hack (down)", "break (off)", bringing in the emblements of a plantation. Also, learn English.
'Diets' means 'of the people'. Its an Dutch word no longer used, but I think the word Dutch may descend from that. We only use the word 'Holland' in songs (it often sounds better) or to describe where we live to foreigners ('You know, Amsterdam.' is used frequently as well).
My teacher tried to explain why the Dutch are called Dutch... so she studied at the university of Leiden and she heard a story about Flammish people that moved to Harlem during the Industrial Revolution and they had an accent which was adapted to the language of the ''Dutch'' (people that already lived in the city of Harlem) and they called it Diets (which yes, some people could know from history classes as it was a language during the Middle Ages spoken by the ''normal'' people (also known as the not-so-rich-and-aristocratic-people). This Diets was overheard by the English workers working there too which simply called it Dutch so word spread that the Dutch are speaking Dutch. Now that I watched this video, I can confirm that my teacher is indeed as crazy as my fellow students think she is. Thanks Name Explain ;)
lemme save 5 min of your life; because of the old dutch word "duutsch" (from the Northern low countries) which basically means "folk". In southern dialects this word was "Dietsch". Dutch is not derivern from Deutsch at all. Both "Dutch/Duutsch/Dietsch" and "Deutsch" (and "Tysk") are of Germanic origin, modern German didn't exist back then. edit: even a quick google search will tell you that.
I honestly don't get how he jumped to the conclusion that the English started calling Dutch people "Dutch" because the German word for "German" is "Deutsch". Especially since the English literally call Germany "Germany".
Besides that, he told the English started calling people with germanic languages Dutch. Guess they called themselves Dutch as English is a germanic language.
i've always liked how the english call everything completely different than the rest of europe does, we call germany(deutschland) duitsland which is the same thing, but english people gotta change it up i guess.
Some inaccuracies in this video. For example: North and South Holland used to be one province, simply called Holland. During this time, the Netherlands had its naval empire, and because of the dominance of this one big province, people around the world generally dealt with Holland. The name stuck, perhaps because it is so much simpler than 'The Netherlands', 'Pays Bas', Paises Bajos', etc. Because of the massive power imbalance between Holland and the other provinces, the province was split up into two provinces.
Are you familiar with the term "Pennsylvania Dutch"? That refers to German people living in and around Pennsylvania (some of whom, like the Amish, still speak "Dutch", i.e. German.)
Plattdeutsch is one variant of the Niederdeutsch (lower german) group of dialects of german., dutch(=the language of netherlands) being also part of this group( but dutch being not just a dialect but a proper standard language)
It always feels so wrong to say I speak Dutch, no not German, no I am not Dutch. I just started telling people I speak Flemish or Brabantian, saves me a lot of explaining.
This really is odd thinking that the English were naming all Germanic people on the European Mainland Dutch, as the English themselves are Germanic as well, just as their language is. And yes English is not only Germanic but also heavily influenced by Old Norsk and French... In fact all Germanic languages: English, Dutch and German originate from one mother language. So for the Germanic English calling the other than themselves Germanic people on the European Mainland is like calling people like you are yourself; people...! Without German family roots, the English as we know them now would not exist. Heck even their "English" royal family is German !
Actually the reason why the country is typically referred to as Holland is not because of that's where all the tourists go. The real reason is that centuries ago Holland was the most wealthy and important province, and all rich people lived there. So when these people started to travel the world on their boats, all of them they would say 'I'm from Holland', so the country became known as Holland.
Such an underrated comment this is. If only more people would read it, because it is more accurate than the video itself.
KesselProductions, ur talking about the golden century for the Netherlands.
@@NoNameX_X0 For Holland and Zeeland and Friesland mainly... 🤣
We just call ourselves and our language 'Nederlands', so it's really just the English that made everything so confusing.
I kinda wish we were taught how to say what the country itself calls itself instead of the anglized version of it.
A few I thankfully know nowadays.
Suomi = Finland/Finnish
Deutschland/Deutsche = Germany/German
Nihon/Nihongo/Nihonjin = Japan/Japanese(lang)/Nihonjin(Japanese people)
I see, thanks for that
Don't you also call the people Nederlanders as well?
Justin Williams
yup "Ik ben Nederlands/I am Nederlands"; "Ik ben een Nederlander/I am a Nederlander."
Well here is a few others:
Norge(Noreg)/Norsk = Norway/Norwegian (The "Noreg" is the verision of the name used in Ny-Norsk(New-Norwegian))
Sverige / Svenska = Sweden/Swedish
Danmark / Dansk = Denmark / Danish
I am Dutch, but we didn't gave ourselves that name. In The Netherlands (called Nederland from a Dutch perspective), we call ourself 'Nederlanders', so in English we already call ourself Netherish. So why won't you? :)
@Jonah Mansel but the cheese tast good 😏
Jonah Mansel rude :(
Jonah Mansel your mom too
In the USA, a "Cheese Head" is a person from the state of Wisconsin (the dairy state) or, more specifically, a fan of the American football team Green Bay Packers.
Jonah Mansel All english food is tasteless.
In Portuguese, everyone calls it Holland, but the official name is “Países Baixos” which means “Lower Countries”
Like any normal language except English
Lena V. Hang on! In English, saying “Low Countries” refers to Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
@Paul Calixte That explains so much!
Like 7 years ago I met a Spanish woman in germany and we were speaking English to eachother. I said multiple times that I was from the Netherlands and she had no idea. When I finally said that I am from Holland she instantly knew it...
Though to be fair, that could ahve happened just as easily to an American :P
Why would they be lower countries if they’re all higher in latitude?
Because the altitude of the Netherlands is quite low
fun fact about holt -> hout.
In Dutch we dropped the in olt or old we lost the l and often turned the o into an ou in general. You can still see this in English because the change happened after Anglofrisian and Dutch split.
Old -> Oud
Holt -> Hout
Hold -> Houd
Bolt -> Bout
Gold -> Goud
Cold -> Koud
These words all mean the same, maybe with some nuance differences, or some extended meanings (bout can also mean 'leg', while bolt can be used in lightning bolt).
Oh cool, wist ik helemaal niet :) Also, the Dutch 'ou' is pronounced like 'ou' in 'mouse', not like in 'you'.
Deldarel
Many Brits pronounce "ol" as "ou", as in Old→Oud
Bout can also mean fart
"Even lekker bouten" meens: Taking a nice shit
Brad Smith 'Bout' in Dutch doesn't mean a human leg, more a leg of a chicken you are eating. As in 'Kippenbout'.
In the netherlands we call ourselves “nederlanders”
{Dark Angel} 😂😂
Ja da kloptttt😏
In belguim we call you kees
Dont care
😂😂😂😂😂hahahaha zo grappig die engelse gasten in over nederland
3:02 It's "SAKSA" and it stems from the region called "Sachsen" in Germany.
Kind of like Holland->The Netherlands
In the dutch provence of twente. Some dialect speaking people call germany pruissen also have heard the name poepeland. From the german word for doll puppe witch spuunds like poepe in our coutry but means shit. So poepeland sounds lik shitcountry
@@alexandermeulman gģģģgģģģģģģģģģģgģģģģģgģģ
This guy knows more about the country I live in then I do myself.
That is sad...
This is very common.
0:46 That's west, my dude.
Sven Servette yeah I pointed out that too
Shit.
In Dutch I use the mnemonic "Nooit Op Zondag Werken", but in English "Never Work On Sunday" would have put us in the South 😂
I say "never eat shredded wheat", shredded wheat being a shitty breakfast cereal old people eat. You need like 50 kilograms of sugar to make them bearable.
What are you talking about, you two?
Never clicked on a video that quickly!
Groetjes uit Nederland!
same
Christian Pereira -Vandervoodt agreed
Christian Pereira -Vandervoodt ik ook
Haha ik ook
Had ik ook
3:02 The finnish name of Germany is ”Saksa”, not ”Saska”.
makes sense
Just call them "Saxons" !
HI
THAT makes a lot more sense, seeing they were the original Saxons[ Sachsen is still a province in Germany ] Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua.
He also horribly misspronounced "Allemagne".
lololol, Dutch people are 'Nederlanders' in the Netherlands. English people f*cked it up
in het nederlands heten wij gewoon nederlanders
De enige die dit kunnen lezen zijn Nederlands sprekende mensen en ik denk niet dat je dat hun nog moet uitleggen...
Ja inderdaad lol 😂
Wij zijn gewoon belgen
Bueno, yo lo entiendo y vivo en españa
Dat is waar lol
somehow you said hout pretty accuratly
Dutch is like the one language I’m not completely terrible with.
Indeed, it was pretty good
well there are a few words that could be hard to pronounce, i'm dutch and i struggle with it
do sweden. judging by "tyskland" you will pronounce words great ;D
That's how literally everyone would pronounce it
Two of the more EASTERN provinces North Holland and South Holland?
Western provinces would be correct.
I must be imagining things but I always hear "never" when you're trying to say "nether".
Flooding isnt actually a real problem at all, due to all the amazing waterworks we invented. One of our provinces was entirely claimed from the sea in fact. We are the masters of the sea, in fact so much so that dutch civil engineering companies are hired across the globe to solve flooding issues, like Jakarta and Venice to name a few
luuk341 and this are exactly the reasons why i’m proud to be dutch person ( not native tho i’m black)
tsuyu asui You are dutch if you have our pasport, friend! If does not matter where your family is originally from! We are all the same, all dutch
fuck you
BasBoy What? What did we say?
A few years ago The Netherlands passed Switzerland in size!
*western provinces
nihonium
don’t you just love the frikkin Netherlands?
God i hate to be dutch. >~>
Spicy Memes Why would you hate being Dutch? I live there to, and I love it here. and I’m very proud of my country
Hi nihonium!
henlo
DracoSapphire lol nederland is kut
i am *belgiumish*
South-Netherish*
Me too
Sameish
Can I have an lick of your ice cream
icecream coaster me is americanish
Many of my ancestors came from The Netherlands; I never knew there were quite a few Dutch surnames until I researched our tree and found many came over in the 1600s to America. Thanks for the video!
Really good video dude. I was actually going to look this question up on google yesterday and forgot to haha.
Griff
Im netherlandish
Edit: I CANT BELIEVE I GOT SO MANY LIKE HOLY MOLY THX YOU ALL THIS IS CRAZY!!!!!!!😱😱😱😀😀😀
Sten Overdijk me to😂
Ik ook
Ik ook
Ik ook
oh god, are u serious?
Ik wil kaas ik ben ook een klant !!
Astrid's Playmobil-Scheich world een kilo kaas
Ik houuuu van kaaaaaaaaas
Dit is niet mijn winkel vriend
Hahaha
Astrid's Playmobil-Scheich world haha ik heb een kankertumor
NE: sais nether
Me: I will make a Minecraft joke
NE: makes a Minecraft joke
Me: :o
The fact that the name is 'Holland' is still used as the name of the entire country of the Netherlands, has to do with the Dutch golden age of the 17th century.
The Republic of the Seven United Provinces of The Netherlands, also known as The Dutch Republic, was loosely collection of 7 provinces. Including Duchy of Guelders (Gelderland), County of Zeeland, Lordship of Utrecht, Lordship of Overijssel, Lordship of Frisia (Friesland), Lordship of Groningen and ... County of HOLLAND (roughly the provinces of North- and South-Holland nowadays combined)
The people in those days were more attached to their province than to the Republic.
The most powerful province was, of course, Holland, because of it's large merchant fleet. When those ships went abroad and people asked: "Where you from?" Their response will likely be "I am from Holland."
So that name stuck in a lot of languages around the world, and nowadays often mean the entire country of The Netherlands.
Bytheway: Lot of Dutch people now, will still refer to our neighbor in the west, across the North Sea, as 'England', but actually meaning 'Great Britain' or the 'United Kingdom'.
England was, of course, our biggest economic rival in the 17th century and Great Britain, nor the UK didn't exist yet in those days.
Bonus: Why do Dutch people yell at sporting events "Hup Holland hup!" (meaning: "Go Holland Go!")? Well, even in Dutch 'Nederland' is a difficult word to say fast or to singalong in a song. Also, a difficult word to rhyme and to make a compelling song about. 'Holland' on the other hand rolls off the tongue and so easier to put into a song. :D
'Where are you from?'
-'The Netherlands'
'Where is that?'
-'From Holland! -_-'
'Ooooowww....'
Why not netherlanders
Het YoloPortaal idk in the netherlands it is Nederlanders
lol i thought people from netherlands are called neanderthals
I swear a ton of us went wild in elementary school when we found out there was a country named after the Minecraft nether
I'm Netherish! Who else? 😂 NL SQUADDD
Unicorn Starlight NEDERLAANDDDDDD KIKKERLAAND
ok ik stop wel
AngryGamer - Agario ! dankje
he pony unicorn ding ik ben een poop unicorn
Ik
*"van Duitsen bloed" to remind you of your true fatherland. You DUTCH people xD
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Patrick
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Btw it's Saksa and not saska :)
Name Explain just an interesting thing to mention is that the Dutch didn’t make it easy for England because the Dutch name for an old Dutch language is Diets. Also Duits was used to describe people in the area of Netherlands and Germany a long time ago and is still in the national anthem. And that is very similar to Dutch and Deutsch.
hey you got a mistake at 1:56, Nederlands means Dutch, Nederland is the translation for the Netherlands (or low land).
-Don't upload a video showing a dead body,- have a fun trip :D
i am from the Netherlands and i didn't even know this, thanks a lot!
Hi, I'm a Dutchman here to add to the confusion. Accross various times and languages the Netherlands have among others been called: The Lands Over Here, The Lands Over There, Holland, The Low Countries, Flanders, Belgica, Brabant, The Burgundian Netherlands, The Habsburg Netherlands, The Seventeen Provinces, United Provinces, and Frisia. Sometimes several of them at the same time.
"...the English simply referred to all speakers of Germanic languages as Dutch."
Themselves excluded, of course.
Timothy McLean yeah, their language has a lot more Romance influence though
I do find that funny, but sadly, we were mostly all pricks back then and now their lack of linguists to tell them they were speaking a germanic language makes us look like assholes
But I heard somewhere that their translation for the word "Deutsch" was actually "Teuton"
+Timothy McLean I thought EXACTLY the same thing.
+Sir Jaojao Yes, in terms of vocabulary, but language classification is also based on grammar and phonetics. And in both those areas, English is much more Germanic than Romance.
I'm finding that Teuton was actually either a very early usage to reference the Teutonic knights, or as to bring back the Teutonic knights as a derogatory term.
High Dutch are just Dutch people on weed
-some Dutch guy
I was going to mention that, too. How tables have turned and the Low Dutch are now the High Dutch
they got on their level
Eh ja, da's waar
als jij*
Im one of them
There is another part you left out-Frisia. I believe Frisia is older than the rest of the country and extended over the northern part of The Netherlands and Germany. Now it is the province of Friesland (west) and in Germany East Frisia. It has its own language-Frisian. Frisian is the closest to Old English. So I guess Old English was also a Germanic language.
My maternal grandparents and paternal grandfather immigrated from Friesland, Netherlands to Friesland, Wisconsin. They were Fris/Frysk? but Mom would also say Dutch or Hollanders. They would speak Frisian, English, or mixed.
@laynestaley4957 Not Frisia.
I’ve always wondered this and could never get a good answer by the Dutch and German people I met on my European travels. Thanks!
The dutch word for "dutch/deutch" dietsch is sometimes still used for a "Greater Netherlands" (Dietschland) (aka, Netherlands, Flanders and a teeny-tiny part of france. It's quite outdated now though.
Also, another form/ archaïc form of "dutch" (Duytsch) was used to describe the dutch people around the 16th century, ending up in the national anthem ("ben ick van Duytschen bloedt") (am I of dutch blood). Only through language evolution it is now pronounced as "duitsen bloed" meaning german blood.
HAHAHAHA THE WAY HE PRONOUNCED HOUT I CAN'T
chill out ikr
He pronounced it pretty well
I'm Dutch and he said it pretty accurately
Michel M. Prins ik ook, ik vond het gewoon grappig
Sammeee
Not to be THAT person, but.. it's "Saksa" in Finnish, not "Saska". Great video though! :)
he also managed to write Allemagne correctly in french and went on to butcher it calling it Allemange
Congratulations, you are now THAT person.
To make it more confusing, ask someone living in the province of Friesland what he calls his or her nationality
im sorry but 3:02 SAKSA NOT SASKA
Ehm, I, as a Dutchman, have always learned ‘Dutch’ comes from ‘Diets’, an early name for the Dutch language. Could still be wrong, but that's what schools are teaching us.
How did the Dietsche name the house of the Teutonic Order in Mechelen? Dietsche Huus!
Christian Takkebos Yes, I think that's right. But even 'Diets' looks very related to 'deutsch' and 'þiudisc'.
In both German and Dutch the 'þ' or 'th' sound became a 'd' sound and 'sc/sk' bacame 'sch' (in Dutch it was further reduced to an 's' sound at the end of words). At least to my knowledge.
Diets(ch) komt vh middelnederlandse Diet wat volk moet betekenen.
bv de naam 'Diederik' (Dirk) : rijk aan volk
ook : (iemand) iets 'diets' maken = iets verduidelijken of iets zo uitleggen dat ook het volk (diet) het begrijpt.
Diets comes from 'Diet' = medieval for 'volk' (people) so house (hus) of the people or 'volkshuis' in Dutch
Walter Ross Mechelen!! Limburg voor de win !!
Australia was briefly known as “New Holland”, which make’s sense since it was the Dutch who discovered it, and it’s also where “New Zealand” comes from, as Holland and Zeeland are Dutch provinces
And yet when we cheer on our football squad we will chant "Holland" ourselves aswell.
probably 75% that watched this video is dutch
MEER VERTALEN
3:01 Saksa*
Saksatchewan doesn't sound as fun
Ahmes Syahda I know this is (probably) a joke, but I was saying that Germany in Finnish is Saksa, not Saska
Why not Sasha lol
because the germans who we met up there came from Saxony and not Sashony :D
That moment when your country is called after a thing in minecraft 👏🏻👌🏻
With a Dutch dad and a Belgian mom I find it easier to call myself Netherlandish in English with the lack of a better word in Dutch. Also my name means “the people” what a coincidence
Could you Explain titles like Duke, King, Emperor, count etc
Sir Jaojao and tzar and Sultan
Messenger Mint yes those too, for some reason those two don't get translated into english while most foreign titles are. Kind of like Kaiser
Sir Jaojao i don’t know about sultan, but tsar and kaiser are just the russian and german words for emperor
Lex dekker yeah that's true but I mean the japanese emperor isn't called tenno in english, most such titles aren't translated
Sir Jaojao
Good one!
Duke, Count, Baron, Lord...etc..
The Finnish word for Germany is not Saska, it's Saksa, coming from the German Bundesland Sachsen.
no the Bundesland stole that name it does not belong to it, the saxons were a germanic tribe living where today the "bundesländer" lower saxony, parts of saxony-anhalt and westphalia are, the bundesland "Sachsen" got the name because the duke of the saxons (Henry the lion) was cast down by the emperor and his family (the house of welf) lost the title to the count of anhalt, with whom it got to nowadays saxony where no saxon people lived at all. the finnish and estonian people use that name because of the saxon traders of the hanse who were the first germans they met
Saks comes from the germnic tribe Sachsen (or Saxon in english). That tribe also were the reason for naming the german Bundesländer Sachsen,Sachsen-Anhalt and Niedersachsen (lower saxony) and btw also Anglosaxon (which was an amagation of norther germany tribes from nowadays Netherlands,northern germany& denmark)
Thanks for this explanation. I've always wondered why people from Holland are called Dutch!
The Italian word for German “Tedesco” makes so much more sense now after hearing Thiudisc.
Even though the official name of our country is Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden (The Kingdom of the Netherlands), we call it 'Nederland' (singular) instead of 'Nederlanden' (plural). This is because 'Nederlanden' used to refer to the Dutch confederation of provinces in the olden days (The provinces were several lowlands.. Nederlanden!). But now that our country is a unitary state, we call it Nederland.
ZIJN WE NIET EEN PIJN?
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Best wel
Het grammatica meestal wel
Crick1952
De grammatica ;)
Nederlandse lidwoorden zijn irritant.
Laurann *facepalm*
To make it simple...
Country: the Netherlands
Language: Netherlandic
People: Netherlanders
Ph Ru | The Language is Dutch! I’M DUTCH AND I KNOW WHAT IT IS!
In dutch it's actually this simple,
Country: Nederland
Language: Nederlands
People: Nederlanders
its the foreigners who made it difficult.
Jannoe | No it isn’t! Our country is Netherlands! Our language is Dutch! And the people are Nederlands! Get that right,
@Powernarth Read my reaction again, I simply stated our dutch translations arent as difficult. Of spreek jij Diets en geen Nederlands?
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About the term Holland : "Hol" means "hollow" in dutch, which seams logical : it's below sea level.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Otherwise, it would have been "Houtland", and it's not like there's really an abundance of trees, is there?
Guys it's really easy to visit all you need is to make a portal using 10 obsidian and light it with a flint and steel
As one Patrick said (and this one apparently) I thought it said weast.
Weast? What kind of compass are you reading lad?
Dermpel a compas better than anyone could imagene
We call ourselves Nederlanders.
Name Explain You could've also mentioned that the iberians for a long time referred to the dutch as "batavians" besides also "hollanders"
Fake news people don't believe this lie.
As a official Zeeuw I protest ...
Even if I would not call myself that I would be known as a Geus.
If it had been up to the weak 'Nederlanders' they'd all be speaking Spanish still.
Name Explain just an interesting thing to mention is that the Dutch didn’t make it easy for England because the Dutch name for an old Dutch language is Diets. Also Duits was used to describe people in the area of Netherlands and Germany a long time ago and is still in the national anthem. And that is very similar to Dutch and Deutsch.
And having "ben ik van Duitsen bloed" in the second line of our national anthem also doesn't help...
Amazing food: "Picture of stroopwafels" -When you know somebody did their homework on the Netherlands :P Those things are amazing ^_^
Being a Dutchman for 25 years straight now I must say though, I never really knew why everyone called us Dutch, but I do know we still get confused with the German so this makes alot of sense :P
I am from Düsseldorf and my favourite two Dutch provincies are Limburg & Gelderland
3:01 It's actually Saksa, not Saska. The name comes from the Saxons, hence ks, not sk.
The Netherlands in Dutch is Nederland, not Nederlands. You pronounced hout very well though
Hank or De Nederlanden/ De Lage Landen
Rick van der Sterren Yes, but definitely not "Nederlands"
maar je spreekt toch nederlands? en je bent ook nederlands
lordkyoko 1:49
heb nog nooit iemand de nederlanden horen zeggen, met uitzondering misschien van hoogbejaarden/bea
In the early colonial period of what is now the U.S., William Penn, an English Quaker who organized the colony of Pennsylvania ("Penn's Woods") as a refuge for Quakers, also invited German protestants who did not accept the standard Lutheran theology to take refuge in his new colony. This included groups that survive today, such as the Mennonites and Amish. These people became known collectively in the U.S. as the "Pennsylvania Dutch," although they were German rather than Dutch. Prior to World War I, there were many Germans working in American vaudeville, getting laughs using "funny" German accents, etc. These were known as "Dutch acts". During World War I, Americans decided they hated everything German, and "Dutch acts" disappeared.
Finally someone who explained it! Since I'm " Netherish" everyone was asking me ab what you're talking ab, so imma prob send them this video.
You forgot to include the southernmost part of Zeeland in the southwest in your first map. Which happens all the time :(
One of my mates is from there, Flemish Zeeland
Is that how we got New Zealand?
yes
VLAAMSE GROND!!!! 😂😂😂😂
Yes, a dutchman discovered it.
Some more clarification on my great country, NOW STOP SAYING HOLLAND FOR GODS SAKE
Oh you're from Holland?
Susan Fuck Me Boots SHEDHDJAHRFWEJUIRWEFJNOIREWFJFKREJIWFREWJNKJFEWFKJWEJRFFRJNKEJWFWREJKNRJEWFNEFRJKNJ DONT CALL IT HOLLAND CHCJWEFRFUJOREIUJPREW (and i’m from the utrecht province, so not at all)
Blazing Blitzle
Wajow dude je flipt hem zoals geertje Wilders
(Sorry voor de grap)
kanaal digitaal het was als grapje
I won't say Holland but I can say Niederlande x)
Very informative, even for me as a Hollander myself ;-) Thank you!
The differnce between the Netherlands and Holland is: we have a province(?) that is called Holland (North Holland and South Holland. It used to be 1 part but it broke up). Holland was very good in trade and so people went to call the Netherlands Holland but actually its just the Netherlands
Suggestion: Where did religions get their names?
UK Ball good idea
The Romanian Atheist
"Islam" is just Arabic for Submission (extended meaning: Submission to Allah)
"Hinduism" comes from the Indus river.
The Romanian Atheist I think you could go in to more detail then that
Buddhism - Buddha Which means the enlightened one
Christianity - Christ which is the greek word for messiah
Judaism- named after the people called "the Jews" which was named after the Kingdom of Judea around 800 BC that was named after the tribe of Judah, that was named after Judah. Judah was the founder of the tribe of Judah in the bible and his name comes from Hebrew meaning "praise (God)"
Then there is the Holy books
Buddhism's holy book "Poly Canon" - means "words of Buddha"
Christianity's Holy book "Holy Bible" - comes from the Latin word for library
Judaism's holy book "TaNaK" - Is an acronym of Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim meaning the law, the prophets, and the writings respectively
Brian Diehl No Bible comes the Hebrew word for book
Saska < Saksa
As a Dutch person i approve the transition to calling us the Netherish in the name of logic!
Dus het waren de Engelsen alweer
Nice video, but I'm gonna have to point out that it's not just the UK that referred to "all the Germanic people across the North sea" (Germans and Dutch) as "Dutch". In Dutch, we also used to have the word "Dietsch" with "Nederdietsch" (Low Dutch) referring to Dutch. Later this gradually changed into "Duyts" and eventually "Duits", which is how we currently refer to Germans. And actually, up until the 18th century, we referred to our own language as "Nederduyts" or "Nederduits" on some occasions!
Well, the Netherlands hasn't been around as an independent state for that long, but the Low West Germanic cultural area of "de Nederlanden" has been a "thing" since the middle ages. Flanders and Brabant and later also Holland (Dutch/Flemish culture dominated region) were very historically important regions of Europe long before het plakkaat van Verlatinghe was signed in 1581.
Yep. It's weird though. Apparently Dutch is *extremely* hard to learn for Foreigners but... Deutsch was hard for me to learn despite being Dutch, since Dutch basically ditched the Deutch (try saying that 10x in a row quickly) grammatical rules that were 'not necessary' and went from there. We have some strange remnants left, though.
Ghipoli True, in fact "Diets" was used to refer to the area where the Middelnederlands/Middle Dutch language, the direct precursor of the modern Dutch was spoken. Thats rougly the Netherlands, Belgium and a part of Germany. Diets translates in to Dutch in English and Deutsch in German and point out to the same area. Therefore, Deutschland and Deutschers, as they call their country and themselves, are actually calling it Dietsland/Dietsers and in fact falsely claiming they are dutch. Which they are not, the are Germans (Germanen, in Dutch) living in Germany or Germanie, as among others the english and the french seem to understand 🙃
This video was too long. Halfway through it, I got hungry so I left it playing and went to the kitchen to fix my self a sandwich. But then I found out that I'm out of mayonnaise so I went to a store. There, I saw the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my whole life. But I'm really a shy person so I took up a three-year personality development course so I can introduce my self. She was very friendly and all, but unfortunately, she has a boyfriend. So I said, all good, I'm a mature person. I want the best for her and I harbor no illusion that I am the best person for her and she seems happy with her boyfriend, so I did not bother her anymore. But we kept in touch and we became friends and I got over my crush on her. Then she broke up with her boyfriend, we drank some alcohol because of it, I told her she'll be fine and I wished her well. I still think she's the most beautiful woman in the world, but like I said, I am over my crush on her. It was like five years already when I first saw her. Besides, I am quiet happy with the friendship I developed with her. It was more important than a crush. So we kept hanging out, drinking, having coffee, and all. I had a girlfriend, she started dating other guys. My girlfriend wants to live some other life without me in it, so I said, okay, I want the best for you and I want you to pursue your happiness. My lady friend and I drank alcohol about it, and she gave me the same advice I gave her when she was in that position and I became okay with the breakup immediately. But we were really drunk, so she spent the night in my apartment. I only have one bed, so you know what that means: She took the bed and I slept on the couch. But on the couch, I really can't sleep. Something was bothering me. So I tossed and turned for about three hours, then I finally can't take it anymore, I stood up and went straight to my room where she's sleeping. I approached the bed, gently sat on it and I reached for her shoulder to pull her closer to me. She stirred and woke up. She asked what's up. I told her, you know, the first time I saw you, I was watching a video and left it playing to get my self a sandwich then went to the store to get some mayo then I got distracted by life that I forgot to finish the video. She said, you know what, I've been wondering about a weird noise in your night drawer. So we opened that drawer, and lo and behold, there's my phone and this video still has two minutes of play time on it.
1mkEdits I will give you a like for creativity
He didnt even come up with it. Copy pasta
this comment is too long
i gave up after the first few words LOL
This was.. quite an adventure.
I wonder is the name 'Dutch' related to the title 'duchess'? I know the spelling is different, but they sound the same
Bit late reply, but no. Duchess, Duke and Duchy come from the Latin word Dux (= leader/general). Dutch comes form the ancient german word þiudiskaz (= the people).
Never any relation to Duchy. However, Luxemburg 🇱🇺 is a Grand-Duchy and was part of The Netherlands 🇳🇱 till 1890.... But duchy has got nothing to do with Dutch. The British named the people from Holland / Netherlands wrongly Dutch....
@@maartenj.vermeulen900 Not really since back then we also called ourselves "Dutch".
In this video he makes it seems like only the germans used the word "Deutsch" and the Brittish simply made the mistake to also use that for us. However, that was the old German word for "Folk" and in old Dutch we also used such a word. "Diets" (or "Duutsch" as was also used depending on where you were) is the old Dutch version of "Deutsch" that the Germans had.
This is oversimplified but in the end the Brittish didn't name us wrongly Dutch.
Would like to add that Middle Dutch was spoken in various regions. Regions that now are in Germany and The Netherlands (at the time of Middle Dutch, The Netherlands and Germany were not the countries as we know them now). Middle Dutch had various dialects, but to put these different dialects under one umbrella, they called it "Diets". Diets = Dutch in English. Diets was called Dietsch or Deutsch by people of The Netherlands earlier. It wasn't until later Dietsch became Diets. To make it even more complicated: there was one part who referred to the language as Diets, and another part would call it Duutsch. All these similar looking/sounding names are a setup for confusion obviously.
It's a bit more complicated than this, since for example The Netherlands wasn't a country. The provinces mentioned in this video were independent, basically their own country. Hence neighbouring regions had their variation (dialect) of Middle Dutch. The southern part called it Diets, the northern part called it Duutsch. Duutsch is not Duits which is Dutch for German.
TLDR: Middle Dutch had different dialects. To give them one name, it was called Diets. Diets is derived from Diet which means "nation" (as in people of the country). So Diets literally means language of the nation (vernacular). So Dutch refers to Diets.
I'm a Dutchman from the Southern province North-Brabant (new video idea?) and thus definitely not from the Holland region. I'm happy you made this video explaining that most Dutch people, all folks in those 10 other provinces are not Hollanders. :)
Leviwosc true. Because we don't like the people above the rivers. And by that we mean: Hollanders!
Exactly, I think almost nobody outside of Holland is very pleased with it being marketed as Holland all the time :/
And yeah i love explaining that North-Brabant is along thesouthern border of the country haha. And that Flemish Brabant isn't called south-Brabant :P
Wacht jullie zien jezelf niet als Hollanders? Ik woon in zuid-Holland ik dacht altijd dat heel Nederland zichzelf Hollander noemt
Brabanders horen bij het bourgondische zuiden. Hollanders zijn gewoon stijve calvinistische noorderlingen.
Kan mij dat verrotte joh. Kan niemand iets schele. Kneus
Like als je Nederlands bent😂😂
Kas Brooijmans ik ben helaas hollands
Kas Brooijmans ik ben nederlandS niet nederland
Helaas ben ik nederish, sorry
Kas Brooijmans ik ook
XD
I always thought that we are called the Dutch because the collective name for all dialects in the Netherlands was Diets which then became Dutch in English
The real answer to the question (in the title) is that the word 'Dutch' actually comes from Old Dutch (Duitsch), Nedersaksisch (Duuts) and Ostfrisian (Düütsch) to discribe what was spoken in the east of the Netherlands in medieval times. The actual Dutch language as spoken today originated from a mixture of (Germanic) Saxon and Frankisch.
I am an Afrikaner from South Africa. It is commonly believed that our language (Afrikaans) developed from the official High Dutch, but it seems to be much closer to Diets/Plattdeutsch. Most Afrikaners nowadays find it hard to understand Dutch (ABN), but that is due more to difference in accent/pronunciation than than vocabulory. Academically Afrikaans is classified as a germanic language in the dietse subgroup. Netherlanders often call it Zuid-Afrikaans, which is quite incorrect, because it is not limited to South Africa. South Afrikaans is a variant spoken in southwestern SA, more often called Kaaps (Cape dialect).
Actually another explenation where 'dutch' (which also refers to the language) is beacause in middledutch their language was called 'Diets' which ment 'for the people' (so instead of Latin for the upper class, Diets and eventually Nederdiets was a language for the people) this term Nederdiets went 2 ways: first Nederlands (Netherlands / Lower lands) and secondly to Nederdiets (Lower Dutch) the complete explenation is to complicate for a UA-cam comment 😜 (sorry if there are any mistakes in my English, I'm a Dutch speaking Belgian 😁)
"Hout" (wood) exists in English too as "Holt". An example is "Northolt" (Middlesex), which means "Northwood". There's also Holtby, near York.
a lot of words with origin ending in "olt" or "old" eventually changed to "out" in the Duthc language, ex. gold, bolt, hold turning into goud, bout, houd.
I'm actually a bit confussed by the 'holt' explanation...
I just always simple saw it as Hol = hollow, hollow land, cause that part contains a lot of regained land from the see/rivers , so hollow ..
+romanvampire - don't be confused, look your cognate dictionaries up - you'll see that *holt* has its root in the Indogermanic *kel_- (endvowel missing), which means "hack (down)", "break (off)", bringing in the emblements of a plantation. Also, learn English.
"Holz" in German
Marcomanseckisax that's because English is a Germanic language.
'Diets' means 'of the people'. Its an Dutch word no longer used, but I think the word Dutch may descend from that. We only use the word 'Holland' in songs (it often sounds better) or to describe where we live to foreigners ('You know, Amsterdam.' is used frequently as well).
My teacher tried to explain why the Dutch are called Dutch... so she studied at the university of Leiden and she heard a story about Flammish people that moved to Harlem during the Industrial Revolution and they had an accent which was adapted to the language of the ''Dutch'' (people that already lived in the city of Harlem) and they called it Diets (which yes, some people could know from history classes as it was a language during the Middle Ages spoken by the ''normal'' people (also known as the not-so-rich-and-aristocratic-people). This Diets was overheard by the English workers working there too which simply called it Dutch so word spread that the Dutch are speaking Dutch. Now that I watched this video, I can confirm that my teacher is indeed as crazy as my fellow students think she is. Thanks Name Explain ;)
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lemme save 5 min of your life; because of the old dutch word "duutsch" (from the Northern low countries) which basically means "folk".
In southern dialects this word was "Dietsch".
Dutch is not derivern from Deutsch at all. Both "Dutch/Duutsch/Dietsch" and "Deutsch" (and "Tysk") are of Germanic origin, modern German didn't exist back then.
edit: even a quick google search will tell you that.
That makes alot more sense.
I honestly don't get how he jumped to the conclusion that the English started calling Dutch people "Dutch" because the German word for "German" is "Deutsch". Especially since the English literally call Germany "Germany".
I don't get it either, seems like lazy thinking or a bad joke :/
So why did France and up with it's name? I wonder if you know that? ;)
Besides that, he told the English started calling people with germanic languages Dutch. Guess they called themselves Dutch as English is a germanic language.
I live in the netherlands and i live right beside keukenhof(where all the flowers are)
Yeah there are no flowers anywhere else in The Netherlands ?
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Can you do a video about the origin of Macedonia? Not the greek one
I'm from there
Ilija Mitrevski same :D
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You answered yourself
The Bulgarian one? Are you from Bardaska?
In Germany we call it 'Niederlande' which means 'lower lands' like it does in dutch. And sometimes we call it Holland too.
Clash Cookie wow i dint nos that im from the netherlands
i've always liked how the english call everything completely different than the rest of europe does, we call germany(deutschland) duitsland which is the same thing, but english people gotta change it up i guess.
yes, dutch people used to use alot of sch back in the day, now we don't
this is why i like germans, i mean, Das ist warum ich liebe den Deutschers!
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One-liner summary: British was ignorant that they called the Netherlanders Dutch, and the rest of the world unwittingly followed suit.
I was eating a stroopwafel when watching this no joke
Some inaccuracies in this video.
For example: North and South Holland used to be one province, simply called Holland. During this time, the Netherlands had its naval empire, and because of the dominance of this one big province, people around the world generally dealt with Holland. The name stuck, perhaps because it is so much simpler than 'The Netherlands', 'Pays Bas', Paises Bajos', etc.
Because of the massive power imbalance between Holland and the other provinces, the province was split up into two provinces.
Are you familiar with the term "Pennsylvania Dutch"? That refers to German people living in and around Pennsylvania (some of whom, like the Amish, still speak "Dutch", i.e. German.)
Steve Lovelace to add to the confusion, Mennonites speak Plautsdeitch, an old German dialect
Plattdeutsch is one variant of the Niederdeutsch (lower german) group of dialects of german., dutch(=the language of netherlands) being also part of this group( but dutch being not just a dialect but a proper standard language)
I thought it was a mix of german and dutch.
They're called Dutch because people didn't know Deutsch was different from Dutch when they arrived.
Actually ... most people still don't know the difference.
Anyone who speaks Deutsch and Dutch knows there is a world of difference.
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It always feels so wrong to say I speak Dutch, no not German, no I am not Dutch. I just started telling people I speak Flemish or Brabantian, saves me a lot of explaining.
Im from the Netherlands
And not proud of it.
Oke boeit
Ik ook
i am also dutch but i am not proud of it
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Tyskland and Deutschland are both of the same origin
This really is odd thinking that the English were naming all Germanic people on the European Mainland Dutch, as the English themselves are Germanic as well, just as their language is. And yes English is not only Germanic but also heavily influenced by Old Norsk and French... In fact all Germanic languages: English, Dutch and German originate from one mother language. So for the Germanic English calling the other than themselves Germanic people on the European Mainland is like calling people like you are yourself; people...! Without German family roots, the English as we know them now would not exist. Heck even their "English" royal family is German !
In Romanian we still call it "Olanda" (Holland) and officially sometimes Tarile de Jos (The Lower Countries).