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As a modern day dutch speaker: can confirm the connotation. Never heard about this alternative use of "reet" before. As an aside, in Dutch, this alliterates ("
by Beldin 5y ago
As a modern day dutch speaker: can confirm the connotation.
Never heard about this alternative use of "reet" before.
As an aside, in Dutch, this alliterates ("rust" is "roest" in dutch).
As an aside aside, the expression is passive in Dutch. A more direct translation would be "that can rust to me arse". The "to" there is also weird in Dutch ("aan").
- tromp 5y ago“I’ll let it rust my rectum” alliterates even more (although technically the rectum is the last part of the intestine)...
- pdpi 5y agoHuh. “Reet” sounds like it should share a root with “rut” in English.
- jeroenhd 5y agoIt doesn't appear so, at least according to Wiktionary. The word supposedly comes from some kind of past tense of "rijten" meaning "to rip, tear". "Reet" comes from "rete" which means "split". This is the furthest back the Wiktionary entry goes: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hr%C4%ABtan%C4%85 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic... As for English "rut", that word comes from Middle French "route", ultimately leading back to a Romanic origin which funnily enough also has a meaning related to "to break, tear" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/Hrun%C3%A9pti https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...). So, although the two are not directly related, their origins are surprisingly close to each other.
- pdpi 5y agoThanks! A great example of why "should share a root" doesn't mean "does share a root" :)