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I came across an interesting Dutch word today – Woordenschat<\/strong> [\u02c8\u028bo\u02d0\u027ed\u0259sx\u0251t] – which means vocabulary. Woorden<\/em> = words and schat<\/em> = treasure, and also love honey, darling, sweetheart. So woordenschat<\/em> is a “treasure of words” or “word treasure”. It reminds me of the English expression wordhoard, an alternative term for vocabulary, from the Old English wordhord<\/em>. <\/p>\n Are there similarly interesting terms for vocabulary in other languages?<\/p>\n Woord<\/em> also appears in such expressions as: <\/p>\n – woordafbreking = hyphenation (“word breaking\/splitting\/dividing”) Schat<\/em> also appears in such expressions as: <\/p>\n – schatje = baby, honey, sweetheart I came across an interesting Dutch word today – Woordenschat [\u02c8\u028bo\u02d0\u027ed\u0259sx\u0251t] – which means vocabulary. Woorden = words and schat = treasure, and also love honey, darling, sweetheart. So woordenschat is a “treasure of words” or “word treasure”. It reminds me of the English expression wordhoard, an alternative term for vocabulary, from the Old English […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979","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=9979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– woordelijk = verbatim, literal, word-for-word (“word like”)
\n– woordenboek = dictionary (“word book”)
\n– woordenlijst = glossary, word-list (“word list”)
\n– woordenrijk = verboose, volubly (“word rich”)
\n– woordenstroom = verbiage (“word flow”)
\n– woordenwisseling = altercation (“word exchange”)
\n– woordenzifter = nitpicker, niggler, hair-splitter (“word sifter”)<\/p>\n
\n– schatkist = treasure chest
\n– schatmeester = treasurer
\n– schatrijk = immensely rich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"