knaak.
a 2½ guilders coin
Meaning & usage
a 2½ guilders coin
a large, valuable coin
Where this word comes from
Thieves' slang, presumably related to Rotwelsch knök, kneks (“guilder”); in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there was a small German coin called Knack(e), Knacker. Of uncertain origin: * The word seems to be related to the regular word for "bone" in Germanic dialects, e.g. Middle Dutch knook, Low German Knaak (“bone”), from Proto-West Germanic *knokō. * An alternative etymology was suggested A. Huizinga, deriving from Hebrew. He considered the word קַעֲקַע (“engraved stamp/mark”), in which case "knaak" could go back to kaʿaka via Yiddish or Bargoens, describing the stamped coin.
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