Etymology

voorwerp

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Today it means: An ionization or light echo, especially the quasar ionization echo known as Hanny's Voorwerp. Full definition →

Dutch voorwerp
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The story

  1. Dutch · borrowed fromvoorwerp“object”
  2. English todayvoorwerp

From Dutch voorwerp (“object”), after Hanny's Voorwerp, discovered in 2007 by Dutch schoolteacher Hanny van Arkel.

Words from the same roots

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Hanny's Voorwerpvoorwerpje

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