verdieping

Etymology
From, from. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) ; storey

Etymology
From. . Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

The sense “storey” derives from a late-medieval practice of gaining an additional storey by lowering the floor of a house’s attic and/or putting the ground floor below ground level.

Noun

 * 1)  deepening
 * 2)  floor, storey

Usage notes

 * In the Dutch-speaking countries, is the first floor above ground level (as in British usage). The ground floor is called . Until the seventeenth century,  could have both senses.