freekfluweel Mar 10, 2013:

merchant in Persian rugs another possibility...

freekfluweel Mar 10, 2013:

OLD Dutch In OLD Dutch it was written: Persie (for Persia):

"Nog nergens heb ik echter vermeld gevonden de Cristietsen door Cornelis de Bruin in zijn Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie genoemd als de soort volgende op de Poestietsen met de bijvoeging dat zij ‘weinig in koleur van de onzen verschillen."

http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_taa006190501_01/_taa006190501_01_...

freekfluweel Mar 10, 2013:

more options Een grotere kans is dat ‘Persie’ een huisnaam was. Vaak noemden kooplieden hun woningen naar de plaatsen waar zaken gedaan werden. In vroeger eeuwen kwam het meer voor dat families naar woningen heetten. Zo’n soort naam heet een adresnaam.

Merchants used to call themselves after the geographical place where they did their business

Een derde verklaring is dat ‘Persie’ helemaal niks met dat land in het Midden-Oosten te maken heeft. Er is een streek in Frankrijk, die Le Perche heet. Dat ligt ten Oosten van Normandië. Minder ver weg dan Iran, maar ook wel leuk.

There is also a region in France with the name: Le Perche (closer to home than Persia)

"van" --> from (geographical place)

http://nltaal.blog.nl/taal-actueel/2006/06/17/komt_van_persi...

Could also be "Afrikaans", then the spelling would be correct.

http://www.etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/schorriemorrie

Barend van Zadelhoff Mar 10, 2013:

Van Persie Thank you for coming back to us so soon.

"Persie" is a last name / surname.
This means this name originated not necessarily in the Netherlands, but even if it did, it might require a whole lot of research to find out what it means, if it means anything at all.

Textpertise Mar 10, 2013:

See this site http://lastnames.myheritage.com/last-name/Van Persie
You will see that people who have the last name Van Persie overwhelmingly come from Malaysia and The Netherlands with smaller numbers coming from Benin, Spain, the Czech Republic, and Australia. This does not tell us, however, how they happened to have that last name to begin with.

Jean Xie (asker) Mar 10, 2013:

surname of "van Persie" sorry, I knew this word from the name of Robin van Persie. I'm interested in "Persie"s meaning because I want to know if he is Persian people.....sorry...

Barend van Zadelhoff Mar 10, 2013:

If it is a spelling error of 'Perzië', then it would be very simple for the asker to verify this from his context.

So asker please tell us what is going on so that we can get back to business again.

Textpertise Mar 10, 2013:

It is alsmost certainly Persia For what it's worth, mis-spelt or not, and from a linguistic perspective, the Greek name for Persia was Persis; the Afrikaans name for Persia is Persië; the Hebrew name for Persia is Paras and the name for the language is Farsi. Ample evidence for use of the letter "s" in reference to this area. If his original has it as Persië, I wouldn't make too much of a fuss about that.

Barend van Zadelhoff Mar 10, 2013:

there is no such thing as the WORD 'persie' in the Dutch language, 'persie' does not exist as a word in the Dutch language

so something must be wrong with this nonsensical combination of letters (non-word)

you'd better focus on the question what is wrong with this nonsensical combination of letters
perhaps you will be able to infer this from the context

this combination of letters looks like 'Perzië', which is the former name of the country which is now called 'Iran'

so it could be a spelling error of the Dutch name/word "Perzië"

freekfluweel Mar 10, 2013:

I am not talking about anthropology. However the former Head of State, the Shah, was Emperor of Persia. No need to go back some 4000 years!

Textpertise Mar 10, 2013:

Anthropology??? @freekfluweel
I really do think that in terms of anthropology, you need to be thinking more in terms of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ORmtZ2Go4

freekfluweel Mar 10, 2013:

rug from Iran formerly known as Persia

correct Dutch spelling: Perzië --> colloquial: Persie

https://www.google.nl/search?q=perzisch tapijt&hl=nl&source=...

could also be a cat