ambacht

From Middle Dutch ambacht, from Old Dutch ambaht, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz, from Gaulish ambaxtos, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos. The same source has led to the form ambt. Cognate with German Amt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmbɑxt/

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• Hyphenation: am‧bacht

ambacht n (plural ambachten, diminutive ambachtje n)

1. handcraft, artisanry
2. a feudal corporation of craftsmen from one (group of) artisanal profession(s)

   Synonym: ambachtsgilde

3. (historical) legal district
   1. judicial jurisdiction of a schout (reeve)
   2. a few of the above turned into an allodium

      Synonym: ambachtsheerlijkheid

   3. former (Dutch) district for dike management, notably in West Frisia and until 1864 in Rijnland

• ambt

• Afrikaans: ambag
• → Indonesian: ambah
• Negerhollands: ambacht

From Old Dutch ambacht, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz, from Gaulish ambaxtos, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos

ambacht n

1. job, duty
2. office, function, post (an official position)
3. handcraft, artisanry
4. guild
5. jurisdiction
6. area that is under the same jurisdiction

• Dutch: ambacht
  • Afrikaans: ambag
  • → Indonesian: ambah
  • Negerhollands: ambacht
• Limburgish: ambach

• “ambacht”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “ambacht (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II