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Why are people from the Netherlands (or Holland) called the Dutch?
I know Holland is a region, but why are they called the Dutch?
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's an English thing as all the other languages call us Netherlanders or Hollanders... Les Neerlandais/Hollandais in French, Niederländer/Holländer in German, etc...
The word Dutch comes from Diets, a very old word in an ancient (Dutch) language meaning "The people"... It has the same origin as the Deutsch in Deutschland (Germany).
I don't know why the English choose to call the Deutschlanders German and the Netherlanders Dutch. Maybe to avoid confusion? Or maybe they think we have more claim to the Diets/Dutch title than the Deutsch/Diets... Maybe because we're physically closer to them than the Germans?
- HanyaLv 41 decade ago
You're certainly not the first one to ask this question.
Vincent's answer is right.
We are Dutch, Nederlands, Hollands and we're proud of it.
- Orla CLv 71 decade ago
Actually, the Netherlands is a country, and Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland are just two provinces in the country.
Source(s): I lived there for 6 years. - red4tribeLv 61 decade ago
Excellent question I have no idea what the answer is.
My guess would be that Americans were confused with Deutsch.
Source(s): I have always wondered this myself.
