Hence, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as Cape Dutch (a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers) or kitchen Dutch (a derogatory term used to refer to Afrikaans in its earlier days).
Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes.
What Bitcoin does for payments, Ethereum does for anything that can be programmed. Ethereum's vision is to decentralize the internet by creating a platform where applications can be built and run on a decentralized network with smart contracts. The blockchain, a type of decentralized network, is able to make agreements across the whole network, without any central authority.