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Subject: Re: Winkelwagen
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 22:08:36 +0200
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Op 19/06/2024 om 15:57 schreef Christian Weisgerber:
> On 2024-06-19, db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I thought this is a German word and wondered about it.
>> But I am told it's Dutch, where Winkel means shop, hence
>> a shopping cart. Why is shop Winkel in Dutch? I suspect
>> that Winkel, as in German, means angle.
> 
> Apart from the modern geometric meaning of 'angle', German "Winkel"
> also means 'corner': im hintersten Winkel 'in the remotest corner'.
> In English you have "corner store", so a shift in meaning from
> 'corner' to 'shop' in Dutch is not farfetched.

That's exactly what happened, as many shops were at the corner. Now we 
have to specify
"De winkel op de hoek" ;)
(Gaan) winkelen is (go) shopping.
But we've still got "de winkelhaak", "angle hook", the drawing square or 
what's it called out there (also, a rip in that shape).
To-morrow we go to "het kapsalon". You don't want to eat that.

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guido wugi