Cut trees is houthakken (hout hakken). A boom is indeed a tree/Baum.
Of course, German and Dutch are related.
>"Hauen" in Germany means to cut trees (among other things, it also means to hit, as in punish). Is there no similar word in Dutch?
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>And what is the Dutch word for tree? I thought it was "Boom". In German it is "Baum". But perhaps "Boom" in this case may also be older German, or some dialect.
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>>Our word for a tree cutter is 'houthakker' (wood cutter). I've searched for boomhauer (unknown word to me, but it may be of middle age origin) and found this page. It says that there were 3 people with that name in 1947.
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