van haver tot gort kennen

Dutch

Etymology

Alteration of earlier van haver tot haver kennen, which in turn represents a folk-etymological alteration of Middle Dutch van aver te avere, meaning "from descendant to descendant" (i.e. "from father to son"; see Proto-Germanic *aferô), a form which seems to have survived dialectally into Modern Dutch. The insertion of gort (“pearl barley”) is due to its being a cereal like haver (“oat”); both cereals however are unrelated to the aforementioned original meaning.

Verb

van haver tot gort kennen

  1. (transitive) To know well.

Conjugation

Conjugation of van haver tot gort kennen: see kennen.
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