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Bintje
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Etymology
From en nl Bintje, diminutive of the name nl Benedictus. The potato was first produced in 1904 by Kornelis Lieuwes de Vries, a Frisian schoolmaster, and named after one of his pupils, a young woman named Bintsje Jansma (spelled with the Frisian diminutive suffix -tsje). (It was common practice in the Netherlands to use a diminutive form of male nicknames for women.)
Pronunciation
en /ˈbɪnt͡ʃə/
Noun
A kind of potato produced in the Netherlands.
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