Etymology

maatje

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Today it means: A fermented herring. Full definition →

Dutch maatje
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The story

  1. Dutchmaat
  2. Dutchmaatje
  3. English todaymaatje

Borrowed from Dutch maatje.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.