A Dutch or Afrikaans term for a small committee or informal group; the diminutive of comité.
Dutch/Afrikaans diminutive form of comité (committee), from French comité, ultimately from Latin comitatus. The -je ending is a standard Dutch diminutive marker.
Dutch is wonderfully efficient with diminutives—adding -je to almost any word makes it cute and small. A 'comité' (formal committee) becomes 'comitje' (a cute little committee, probably informal and friendly). It's a linguistic way of saying 'this is like a committee, but cozier.'
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