MDMD(3): 80.24 `Younkers'

[Miguel Lahousse]

Simply checked my Webster's :
younker, n. (D. jonker, jonkheer, younker; jong, young, and heer, lord,
gentleman)
1. originally, a young nobleman or gentleman
2. a young person, a stripling (Rare)
A stripling is supposed to be a youth passing from boyhood to manhood. 

Modern Dutch dictionaries no longer list 'younker'


By the way Thomas, there is indeed a Dutch equivalent to the German
Junker = Jonker.
1. (eldest) son of a nobleman
2. country nobleman

Rgds
Miguel



Thomas Vieth wrote:
> 
> I'm not so hot in Dutch, but isn't Younker the equivalent to the German
> Junker which is a rank of nobility in back then Prussia?
> 
> Thomas Vieth
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