keuren

From a merger of:

• Middle Dutch coren (“to test, to assess”), from Old Dutch coron, from Proto-West Germanic *koʀōn. Still found in the derived form bekoren.
• Middle Dutch cueren (“to determine”), from Old Dutch *curien, from Proto-West Germanic *kuʀjan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkøːrə(n)/

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• Rhymes: -øːrən

keuren

1. (transitive) to inspect, assess

   Je wilt niet dat de slager zijn eigen vlees keurt.

   You don't want a butcher to assess his own meat. (i.e., judgment of one's own work is unreliable due to bias)

2. (transitive) to test, sample

• afkeuren
• bekeuren
• goedkeuren

• → Aukan: keli
• → Caribbean Javanese: kir
• → Papiamentu: kùr, keur

• kreune, reuken