{"id":22740,"date":"2023-02-23T16:50:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T16:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22740"},"modified":"2023-02-23T16:50:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T16:50:56","slug":"ietsiepietsie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22740","title":{"rendered":"Ietsiepietsie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learnt a cute Dutch word today &#8211; <strong>ietsiepietsie<\/strong>. It means a little, a little bit, teeny tiny or a teeny tiny bit, and is also written  <strong>ietsie pietsie<\/strong>, <strong>ietsje pietsje<\/strong> or <strong>ietsjepietsje<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/dutch-english\/ietsiepietsie\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dakluza\/23058865623\/in\/photolist-9vfhRZ-MhLbiq-B8CHoF-zjPExi-e1Xx2X-9kh23k-9QKm8x-dT1VfE-6GHVos-aYdcWK-dqkiJ9-wxzg6C-8C9X2K-5RaSV-4ShdJ8-pvsmE8-aEteTY-5MtxJe-yijVZz-f8asxc-5AARQJ-oDGZvb-aaGP4-6UkYbB-nH8z5L-6YJs24-3dTUbb-ov2cRG-iy9o2s-3QVpC-ov2tXZ-4RkQES-8sWb6i-2wHY6L-5h6KcJ-9ATToZ-eei9Zz-6Qr3Vf-5ygu3s-27xMe6r-4mpiEg-4XDcFB-zSwpu-3jpYf-54tqVX-mLeFz-am7P1E-9BnuRA-dYj9ig-PzPeS\" title=\"Itsy Bitsy Katydid\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/714\/23058865623_fba197dfd4_z.jpg\" alt=\"Itsy Bitsy Katydid\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You could also translate it as <strong>itsy-bitsy<\/strong>, <strong>itty-bitty<\/strong> or <strong>teensy weensy<\/strong> Do you know any similar expressions in English or other languages.<\/p>\n<p>It is a reduplication* of <strong>ietsje<\/strong> (somewhat, a little bit), a diminutive version of <strong>iets<\/strong> [its] (something, anything), which comes from the Middle Dutch <em>iet<\/em> (something, anything, to any degree, a little, somewhat, sometimes, perhaps), a contraction of <em>iewet<\/em>, from the Old Dutch <em>*iowiht<\/em>, from the Proto-Germanic <em>*ne<\/em> (not) plus <em>io<\/em> (ever) plus <em>*wiht<\/em>, from <em>*wiht\u0105<\/em> (thing) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ietsje_pietsje\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Reduplication<\/strong> is \u201ca morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.\u201d They\u2019re not very common in Dutch. Other examples include <strong>taaitaai<\/strong> (gingerbread), <strong>tamtam<\/strong> (fanfare, grapevine) and <strong>bla-bla<\/strong> (blah-blah, talk) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reduplication#Dutch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re more common in English. Examples include <strong>easy-peasy<\/strong>, <strong>hoity-toity<\/strong>, <strong>hurdy-gurdy<\/strong>, <strong>raggle-taggle<\/strong>, <strong>tut-tut<\/strong>, <strong>chit-chat<\/strong> and <strong>knick-knack<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reduplication#Dutch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learnt a cute Dutch word today &#8211; ietsiepietsie. It means a little, a little bit, teeny tiny or a teeny tiny bit, and is also written ietsie pietsie, ietsje pietsje or ietsjepietsje [source]. You could also translate it as itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty or teensy weensy Do you know any similar expressions in English or other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,10,182,203,44,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-middle-dutch-dietsc-duutsch","category-old-dutch","category-proto-germanic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22740"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22746,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22740\/revisions\/22746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}