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.
Poestenkill, New York Poestenkill, New York Poestenkill is a town in Rensselaer County, New York, United States. The population was 4,530 at the 2010 census. The town is named after the Poesten Kill, an important stream in the area. The words "poesten kil" (with only one "l") are traditionally supposed to signify "foaming water" or "foaming creek" in Dutch. While "kil" indeed means "water" or "creek" in Dutch, Dutch dictionaries do not support the claim of "poest" as "foam". It seems more likely that the creek was named after the nickname "Poest" for the 17th-century local farmer and miller Jan Barentsen Wemp, who