The Origins of the Words in Modern English

The netherlands formed an empire with colonies around the world. One of those colonies was new amsterdam in north america, which became new york when the british acquired it. After the war, the netherlands became a haven for artists, and through that connection, dutch gave us words like landscape, easel, etch and sketch. The word commodore was also borrowed from dutch. Commodore'is actually a dutch rendering of the french word commander. In more recent centuries, english has borrowed other words from dutch like waffle, cooke, colslaw and iceberg.