Nederlandsn.adj.
/ˈnɛdəlandz/, /ˈnɛdəlants/, U.S. /ˈnɛdərlændz/, /ˈnɛdərlænts/, South African English /ˈnɪədəlʌnts/ Chiefly South African.
A. n.
The Dutch language of the Netherlands.
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Dutcha1706
Netherlandish1830
High Dutch1880
High Dutch1901
Nederlands1926
1926 Spectator 21 Aug. 278/2 Africaans resembles, in vocabulary, the Dutch of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries almost more than modern Nederlands does.
1959 Cape Times 8 June 8/5 Nederlands is an old and highly-developed language with a wide literature.
1991 Rhodes Univ. Cal. 1991 21 Academic Staff and Departments... Afrikaans & Nederlands.
2002 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) (Electronic ed.) 1 Dec. In 1991, February was made a professor of Afrikaans-Nederlands at the University of the Western Cape.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Nederlands language.
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c1936 S. & E. Afr. Year Bk. & Guide 36 Afrikaans has ousted ‘Hollands’ and ‘Nederlands’ Dutch.
1966 C. A. Smith Common Names S. Afr. Plants 296 The vernacular name..was in use about 1770, and is the original Nederlands name for the ‘ivy’.
1981 Cape Times 10 Jan. 12 The derivation is Nederlands oude lap, meaning something of little material value.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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