different between european vs veldskoen

Friulian

Adjective

european

1. European

Romanian

Etymology

From French européen. Analyzable as Europa +? -ean.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e.u.ro?pe?an/

Adjective

european m or n (feminine singular european?, masculine plural europeni, feminine and neuter plural europene)

1. European

Declension

Noun

european m (plural europeni, feminine equivalent european?)

1. European

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch veldschoen (Cape Dutch), from vel (“skin, hide”) + schoen (“shoe”); later reinforced by Afrikaans veldskoen.

Pronunciation

• (General South African) IPA^(key): /?feltsk?n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v?ldsk?n/, /?f?ltsk?n/

Noun

veldskoen (plural veldskoens or veldskoene)

1. (South Africa) Originally, a shoe with untanned leather upper sewn without nails, similar to the Canadian moccasin; now generally a heavy boot for outdoor labour. [from 19th c.]
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 28:

     [A]ll my life I've been surrounded by violence. Not in the way any of my quite long line of pioneer forefathers experienced it, leaving their veldskoen tracks through history […]

See also

• vellie
• veldtschoon

References

1978: A Dictionary of South African English. Edited Jean Branford. Oxford.