2019-05-13 at 12:08 PM UTC
What does "thrift" even mean.
2019-05-13 at 12:15 PM UTC
Thrift as in thrifty, economical, frugal etc
2019-05-13 at 10:53 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny
how about miser ?
Not sure how the word "Miser" originated in English, but the Dutch equivalent would be "Vrek" which is derived from a name one gives oneself. Which we call a "Guezennaam" derived from "Geus" which funnily enough comes from the French word for Begger "Gueux". But that's not all, "Vrek" is a fairly modern word, it came from a publication on saving money called the "Vrekkenkrant" named after the institution the people that called themselves "Vrek" set up.
A more historical synonym in Dutch would be "Gierigaard" from "Gierig" which means greedy and "Aard" which means something to the effect of "By Nature" or "essence of" so "Gierigaard" would translate to "Greedy by nature" except we're dutch so we can smack words together and it makes perfect sense.
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