steenbreek
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch steenbreke; compare Old High German steinbrehha, Old Saxon stēnbreka. By surface analysis, steen (“stone”) + breken (“to break”), thus literally, “stone-breaker”. The suffix -e (corresponding to the Germanic agent noun suffix *-ô) visible in the Middle Dutch has mostly vanished in Modern Dutch.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]steenbreek f or m (plural steenbreken, diminutive steenbreekje n)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
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steenbreek on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
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