While we do offer translation assistance in the library on a limited, by appointment only, basis - we do have some tools to help you translate online and some lists like "Old Flemish Words," that have fallen out of fashion, but you might encounter in your research of older documents. Click below to visit these long lists of terms and translations!
Tasite: tacit, silent
Ten regarde: in regards
Teneur: contents
Theologant: student in theology
Tocht: drawing benefits from goods or capital
Touchte, toechte: usufruct, reap the fruits of
Transigeren: agree with
Transportanten: delegates, conveyors
Transporteren: transport, transfer, carry over
Uijtwinninge: amortize debts by the sale of intangible goods
Uligh: intentional, deliberate
Usus fruct: the drawing of benefits from capital without being the owner - Use the property as if it were your own but must keep the place intact
Utante: as before
Ut supra: as above
Uxor: wife, spouse
Uxoris: belonging to the wife
Uytwijzen: prove
Van stonden aan: as of this time, from hence on
Veerdere: easy to adept
Verabuseren: mistake
Verachterde chijnsen: unpaid tributes, payment
Veralieneren-aliëneren: to place in unknown hands
Verbant: pact
Verdieren: bring the priceup
Vergelden: pay, reward, reciprocate
Verhaelen: win back the loss
Verlijden: indemnify oneself, profess the debt
Vermeijnende: supposedly, feigned
Vernaerderinge, vernaerderingh: the right of blood relative of seller to present the buyer
Verrechte: improved, adjusted
Vertijdenisse: relinquish, surrender
Het vervue: the right to a share in the wood in relation to the years that one was the user of the parcel where the timber grew
Vicarius, vicaris: vicar, clergyman who has the highest leadership
Vierschaerbiljet: document delivered by the court
Vierschaeren: bank of the alderman
Vierteel, veerteel: measure of capacity
Viswouwer, viswoinder: fish pond
Voluntairlijck: judicial decision without lawsuit
Voorschoot: apron
Waerschap: bail, security
Waranderen: guarantee
Weegd: wall, wooden or clay wall
Wermerderhand: among living
Zielen: souls, people