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delf

MeaningDelft, the town

Common meaning: glazed earthenware first made at Delft

Journey through time

  1. DutchDelft‘a town in Holland’source
  2. Early English spellingdelftsource
  3. Englishmeaning shiftsa town in Holland → glazed earthenware first made at Delftdelf‘glazed earthenware first made at Delft’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Dutch Delft ‘Delft, the town’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry DELF, p. 159 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • Delft Dutch “Delft, the town”

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