Grietje Baars
Grietje is a Dutch feminine given name. It is a short form and diminutive of Margaretha. It was a common name, but its use has declined steadily since about 1900. at the Meertens Institute database of given names in the Netherlands The fairy tale Hansel and Gretel is called ''Hans en Grietje'' in Dutch. People with the name include: * Grietje "Gré" de Jongh (1924–2002), Dutch sprinter * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Margaretha
Margaretha is the standard Dutch form of the feminine given name Margaret as well as a common form of it in Sweden. In daily life, many use a short form, like ''Gré'', '' Greet'', ''Greta'', '' Grietje'', '' Marga'', ''Margo'', ''Margot'', ''Margreet'', '' Margriet'', and ''Meta''. People with the name include: *Margaretha von Bahr (1921—2016), Finnish ballerina and choreographer *Margaretha van Bancken (1628–1694), Dutch publisher *Margaretha Cornelia Boellaard (1795–1872), Dutch painter, lithographer and art collector * Margaretha "Margreeth" de Boer (born 1939), Dutch government minister *Margaretha Byström (born 1937), Swedish actress, writer and director *Margaretha Coppier (1516–1597), Dutch noble and a heroine of the Dutch war of liberation * Margaretha Donner (1726–1774), Swedish business person *Margaretha Dros-Canters (1900–1934), Dutch hockey, badminton- and tennis player * Margaretha Brita "Greta" Duréel (died 1696), Swedish noble bank fraudster * Margareth ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Meertens Institute
The Meertens Institute (Dutch ''Meertens Instituut'') in Amsterdam is a research institute for Dutch language and culture within the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (''Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen'' or KNAW). Its two departments are ''Dutch ethnology'', focusing on indigenous and exotic cultures in the Netherlands and their interaction, and ''Variation'', focusing on structural, dialectal, and sociolinguistic research on language variation within the Netherlands, with an emphasis on grammar and onomastic variety. History The institute began in 1930 as a Dialect Office; the Folklore office was added in 1940, and Onomastics Office in 1948. These three bureaus came under the umbrella of the Central Commission for Dutch Social Research. The Secretary of the three bureaus, P.J. Meertens, was the first director and retired in 1965. The institute was renamed ''PJ Meertens Institute'' in 1979. In 1998 it was renamed as simply the Meertens Institut ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hansel And Gretel
"Hansel and Gretel" (; german: Hänsel und Gretel ) is a German fairy tale collected by the German Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 15). It is also known as Little Step Brother and Little Step Sister. Hansel and Gretel are a brother and sister abandoned in a forest, where they fall into the hands of a witch who lives in a house made of gingerbread, cake, and candy. The cannibalistic witch intends to fatten Hansel before eventually eating him, but Gretel pushes the witch into her own oven and kills her. The two children then escape with their lives and return home with the witch's treasure. "Hansel and Gretel" is a tale of Aarne–Thompson–Uther type 327A. It also includes an episode of type 1121 ('Burning the Witch in Her Own Oven'). The story is set in medieval Germany. The tale has been adapted to various media, most notably the opera (1893) by Engelbert Humperdinck. Origin Sources Although Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm credited "vario ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grietje De Jongh
Grietje "Gré" de Jongh (2 November 1924 – 6 February 2002) was a Dutch sprinter. She competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics in four events in total: 100 m, 200 m (twice) and 4 × 100 m relay and finished in sixth place in the relay. She won a silver medal in this event at the 1950 European Athletics Championships The 4th European Athletics Championships were held from 23 August to 27 August 1950 in the Heysel Stadium of the Belgian capital Brussels. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. Men's results Complete results .... References 1924 births 2002 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Dutch female sprinters Olympic athletes of the Netherlands People from Oostzaan European Athletics Championships medalists Olympic female sprinters Sportspeople from North Holland 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-at ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grietje Terburg Rowley
Elizabeth Grietje Terburg Rowley (1927–2015) was a Latter-day Saint hymnwriter. Born in Florida, she later moved to Hawaii, to teach, and then to Salt Lake City, Utah. She wrote several hymns for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), among which is "Be Thou Humble". Life Rowley was born Elizabeth Grietje Terburg in Homestead, Florida to a family of Dutch background. She studied at Oberlin College and the University of Miami. Upon graduation, Rowley moved to Hawaii to teach high school''Salt Lake Tribue'' reproduced by Legacy.com. where she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Afterward, she moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, and spent most of her remaining life there. She married Grant Rowley in 1953. Rowley composed many hymns and is most well known for "Be Thou Humble", included in her church's Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1985 book), 1985 hymnal. The text, based on two verses of scripture, Doctrine and Covena ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gretha Smit
Grietje "Greta" Smit (born 20 January 1976) is a Dutch former speed skater. Smit won a surprising silver medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics in the 5000 meter event. She skated a world record broken in a later pair by Claudia Pechstein. Prior to that season, she had not competed in long track speed skating competitions for several years, and had only taken up practice again shortly before the Dutch trials in late 2001. However, she had been a very successful marathon skater in the years before 2002. She had become Dutch marathon skating champion on natural ice in 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2001, and on artificial ice in 1999, 2000 and 2001. During the last held Elfstedentocht in 1997 she finished second. She also won the alternative Elfstedentocht - skated in Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grietje Staffelt
Grietje Staffelt (née Bettin, born 16 July 1975 in Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German politician and a former member of Alliance 90/The Greens in the Federal Diet of Germany. Staffelt has been an MP since 3 April 2000, when she replaced Klaus Müller, who retired. She has been the Media Affairs spokesperson for the Green Party parliamentary group since 2000. Between 2002 and 2005 she also served as education spokesperson. Trivia * Grietje Staffelt is the only female member of the Bundestag soccer team. She also holds a black belt in judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponi ..., which she has practised since her schooldays. * Grietje attributes her strong jaw and masculine appearance to her paternal grandmother Audry Bettin. References External links ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Griet may mean: * An Afrikaans term used for shock, originally used by a Lisa-Lodene Labuschagne in the early 2000. * Another name for a Godwit. * A Dutch feminine given name, short for Margarita (see Grietje Grietje is a Dutch feminine given name. It is a short form and diminutive of Margaretha. It was a common name, but its use has declined steadily since about 1900. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grietje Vanderheijden
Grietje Vanderheijden (born October 1978) is a Belgian actress. She studied music at the conservatories of Brussels & Antwerp (Belgium). During and after her studies she appeared in multiple Belgian musicals such as "Cinderella", " The Wizard of Oz", "Sleeping Beauty", "Pinocchio", "Robin Hood" and "Peter Pan", in which she played the role of Tiger Lily and understudy for Wendy. Television In 2003 Vanderheijden crossed over to television. Since she has been playing the role of "Vicky Muys", the girlfriend/wife of Rikki Dilliarkis ( Steven De Lelie) in the Belgian TV series '' Lili & Marleen'' on vtm. Vanderheijden has also played guestparts in Belgian TV series: ''Rupel'', ''Flikken'', ''Spoed'' and the teen series '' W817''. She also landed one of the leading roles of the youth series '' En daarmee, Basta!'' on Ketnet, where she plays Isa De Riemacker. Isa is a teen with too much time on her hands, too many boyfriends and who needs a lot of parental advice, even though she's no ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grietje Zelle
Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed by firing squad in France. The idea of a beautiful exotic dancer using her powers of seduction as a spy made her name synonymous with the ''femme fatale''. Her story has served as an inspiration for many books, films and other works. It has been suggested that she was convicted and condemned because the French Army needed a scapegoat,Howe, Russel Warren (1986). ''Mata Hari: The True Story. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company.'' pp. x–xi, 285. and that the files used to secure her conviction contained several falsifications. Some have even stated that Mata Hari could not have been a spy, and was innocent. Early life Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was born 7 August 1876 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. She was the eldest of four children to Adam Zelle ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |