{"id":3442,"date":"2026-03-24T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:02:56","slug":"dutch-influence-on-french-maritime-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/dutch-influence-on-french-maritime-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch influence on French maritime terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-level=\"3\">Did you know that several French nautical terms have Dutch roots?<\/p>\n<p aria-level=\"3\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Through centuries of maritime exchange, Dutch terminology entered the French language. Words such as <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">chaloupe<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> (from \u201csloep\u201d), <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">b\u00e2bord<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> (from \u201cbakboord\u201d), <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">tribord<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> (from \u201cstuurboord\u201d) and <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">foc<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> (from \u201cfok\u201d) reflect this influence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p aria-level=\"3\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Even terms like <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">vrac<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">, <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">affaler<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> and <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">livarde<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> point to a shared seafaring heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p aria-level=\"3\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">A reminder that maritime trade has long shaped European languages.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that several French nautical terms have Dutch roots? Through centuries of maritime exchange, Dutch terminology entered the French language. Words such as chaloupe (from \u201csloep\u201d), b\u00e2bord (from \u201cbakboord\u201d), tribord (from \u201cstuurboord\u201d) and foc (from \u201cfok\u201d) reflect this influence. Even terms like vrac, affaler and livarde point to a shared seafaring heritage. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-did-you-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}