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Freebooter

2 stages from Dutch to English.

Today it means a pirate or someone who plunders and pillages without authorization
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Stage 1 of 2
vrijbuiter
Dutch · 1500s
"one who freely takes plunder"
literally free booty-taker, from vrij (free) and buit (booty)
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Stage 2 of 2
freebooter
English · 1560s
"a pirate or lawless plunderer"
settled as the English word for a pirate or plunderer
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