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 is Ethereum? Ethereum, like any advanced system, will mean different things to different people. As you read this section, some bits may not resonate with you or even make sense. That is fine, just skip to the next paragraph and hopefully that one will be more enlightening.