EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen

Re:EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen by cyberferret on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:06AM (#16289155)

Cool. As a native Dutch, perhaps you can shed some light. I saw on the video that the pronunciation of the name is more like "Ardee-yun". Is that correct? Also, is it a Dutch word? If so, I'm interested in learning what it means (if anything).

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Re:EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen by Alexandervn on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:21AM (#16289210)

From their about page, it's 'Surinamese for “Start over again”'. It seems to be pronounced as "Ah-dee-yen".

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Re:EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen by Fnoord on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:35AM (#16289439)

Thank you for that explanation!

To me it sounded very much like Limburgs dialect (specifically Kerkraads dialect) "adieë wa" (only first part, but sometimes the second part is omitted anyway) [1]

English Wikipedia also has an entry for the company Adyen, btw [2].

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groet_(etiquette)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adyen

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Re:EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen by _susanoo on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:20AM (#16289204)

Adyen doesn't mean anything in Dutch. We, or atleast I as a native Dutch person, pronounce it AD (as in Latin ad) - YEN (as in the Japanese currency).

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