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West Frisian
Etymology
From tsjoene + -erij.
Pronunciation
Noun
tsjoenderij c (plural tsjoenderijen)
- witchcraft, sorcery, magic
- 1948, Jacobus Pieters Wiersma, Aldfaars grûn, Friese Pers Boekerij (3rd print, 2001), page 126.
Doe't de brouwer te hearren kaam hoe't syn saak der foar stie en dat men him op tsjoenderij oanseach, joech er him efterbaks en wachte te Mitselwier better dagen ôf.- When the brewer heard how his case stood and that he was suspected of witchcraft, he left in secret and waited at Mitselwier for better days.
- Synonym: magy
Further reading
- “tsjoenderij”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011