Dutch Americans (locative). Similarities between Dutch and English are abundant. Examples include the article "the" ("de" in Dutch), the words "book" ("boek"), "house" ("huis"), "pen" ("pen"), and, "street" ("straat"), among others. Dutch and English are both part of the West Germanic language group and share several aspects. Adaptation of place names between the languages is common, as was the case of New York, where several landmarks like "Conyne Eylandt" (Rabbit Island) became more suitable to Anglophones (Coney Island). Contact between other languages also created various creoles with Dutch as the base language. Two examples, Jersey Dutch and Mohawk Dutch, are now extinct.
European rabbit and "rabit" (18th century). The root word is the Walloon "rabett", which was once commonly used in Liège. "Rabett" itself is derived from the Middle Dutch "robbe", with the addition of the suffix "-ett". The term "cony" or "coney" predates "rabbit", and first occurred during the 13th century to refer to the animal's pelt. Later, "cony" referred to the adult animal, while "rabbit" referred to the young. The root of "cony" is the old French "connil" or "counil", of which the Norman plural was "coniz", and later "conis". Its forerunner is the Greek κὐνικλος, from which the Latin "cuniculus" is