"Groenland" meaning in Dutch

See Groenland in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈɣrun.lɑnt/ Audio: Nl-Groenland.ogg
Etymology: Calque of Old Norse Grǿnland, equivalent to groen + land. Etymology templates: {{calque|nl|non|Grǿnland}} Calque of Old Norse Grǿnland, {{compound|nl|groen|land}} groen + land Head templates: {{nl-proper noun|n}} Groenland n
  1. Greenland (a large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America) Tags: neuter Categories (place): Places in Denmark
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "Grumant",
      "word": "Грумант"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "Grǿnland"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Old Norse Grǿnland",
      "name": "calque"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "groen",
        "3": "land"
      },
      "expansion": "groen + land",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Old Norse Grǿnland, equivalent to groen + land.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "Groenland n",
      "name": "nl-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Dutch",
  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "nl",
          "name": "Dependent territories of Denmark",
          "orig": "nl:Dependent territories of Denmark",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "nl",
          "name": "Places in Denmark",
          "orig": "nl:Places in Denmark",
          "parents": [
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              151,
              163
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              80,
              89
            ],
            [
              226,
              235
            ]
          ],
          "english": "If one wishes to sail from the harbour of Westerbort, which lies in Iceland, to Greenland, one must pass the very high rocky cliff that lies in the sea, called Hutisack, which is halfway between the aforementioned harbour and Greenland, where a kind of pirates reside, who are using leather boats to sail both under and above water, as they please; lying low to pierce the underside of ships laden with merchandise from the outside.",
          "ref": "1562 [1555], Olaus de Groote, translated by Cornelius Grapheus, De wonderlijcke historie van de Noordersche landen [The wondrous history of the Northern lands], Antwerp: Willem Silvius, translation of Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (in Latin), page 27:",
          "text": "(...) hinc ostendendum erit iter a portu Vestrabord eiusdem Islandiæ admarinam, excelsamque rupem Huitsark dictam, quæ mediam navigationem continet ad Gruntlandiam: in qua genus piratarum reperitur scorteis navibus vtens, arbitrariaque navigatione non tam superne, quam inferne forinsecus sentinas negotiatorum terebrando insidians.",
          "translation": "If one wishes to sail from the harbour of Westerbort, which lies in Iceland, to Greenland, one must pass the very high rocky cliff that lies in the sea, called Hutisack, which is halfway between the aforementioned harbour and Greenland, where a kind of pirates reside, who are using leather boats to sail both under and above water, as they please; lying low to pierce the underside of ships laden with merchandise from the outside.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              86,
              95
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              91,
              100
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Europe decided at the time to show greater unity and to undertake more joint activities in Greenland.",
          "ref": "2026, “'Denemarken bereidde zich voor op Amerikaanse aanval op Groenland'”, in NOS Nieuws:",
          "text": "Europa besloot toen meer eensgezindheid te tonen en meer gezamenlijke activiteiten op Groenland te ondernemen.",
          "translation": "Europe decided at the time to show greater unity and to undertake more joint activities in Greenland.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Greenland (a large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Groenland-nl-name-sYeS3dCm",
      "links": [
        [
          "Greenland",
          "Greenland#English:_Q223"
        ],
        [
          "Denmark",
          "Denmark#English"
        ],
        [
          "North America",
          "North America"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɣrun.lɑnt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Nl-Groenland.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/96/Nl-Groenland.ogg/Nl-Groenland.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Nl-Groenland.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Groenland"
}
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "Grumant",
      "word": "Грумант"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "Grǿnland"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Old Norse Grǿnland",
      "name": "calque"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "groen",
        "3": "land"
      },
      "expansion": "groen + land",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Old Norse Grǿnland, equivalent to groen + land.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "Groenland n",
      "name": "nl-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Dutch",
  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Dutch compound terms",
        "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
        "Dutch lemmas",
        "Dutch neuter nouns",
        "Dutch proper nouns",
        "Dutch terms calqued from Old Norse",
        "Dutch terms derived from Old Norse",
        "Dutch terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "nl:Dependent territories of Denmark",
        "nl:Places in Denmark"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              151,
              163
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              80,
              89
            ],
            [
              226,
              235
            ]
          ],
          "english": "If one wishes to sail from the harbour of Westerbort, which lies in Iceland, to Greenland, one must pass the very high rocky cliff that lies in the sea, called Hutisack, which is halfway between the aforementioned harbour and Greenland, where a kind of pirates reside, who are using leather boats to sail both under and above water, as they please; lying low to pierce the underside of ships laden with merchandise from the outside.",
          "ref": "1562 [1555], Olaus de Groote, translated by Cornelius Grapheus, De wonderlijcke historie van de Noordersche landen [The wondrous history of the Northern lands], Antwerp: Willem Silvius, translation of Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (in Latin), page 27:",
          "text": "(...) hinc ostendendum erit iter a portu Vestrabord eiusdem Islandiæ admarinam, excelsamque rupem Huitsark dictam, quæ mediam navigationem continet ad Gruntlandiam: in qua genus piratarum reperitur scorteis navibus vtens, arbitrariaque navigatione non tam superne, quam inferne forinsecus sentinas negotiatorum terebrando insidians.",
          "translation": "If one wishes to sail from the harbour of Westerbort, which lies in Iceland, to Greenland, one must pass the very high rocky cliff that lies in the sea, called Hutisack, which is halfway between the aforementioned harbour and Greenland, where a kind of pirates reside, who are using leather boats to sail both under and above water, as they please; lying low to pierce the underside of ships laden with merchandise from the outside.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              86,
              95
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              91,
              100
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Europe decided at the time to show greater unity and to undertake more joint activities in Greenland.",
          "ref": "2026, “'Denemarken bereidde zich voor op Amerikaanse aanval op Groenland'”, in NOS Nieuws:",
          "text": "Europa besloot toen meer eensgezindheid te tonen en meer gezamenlijke activiteiten op Groenland te ondernemen.",
          "translation": "Europe decided at the time to show greater unity and to undertake more joint activities in Greenland.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Greenland (a large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Greenland",
          "Greenland#English:_Q223"
        ],
        [
          "Denmark",
          "Denmark#English"
        ],
        [
          "North America",
          "North America"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɣrun.lɑnt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Nl-Groenland.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/96/Nl-Groenland.ogg/Nl-Groenland.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Nl-Groenland.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Groenland"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Groenland meaning in Dutch (3.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Dutch dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-06-01 using wiktextract (e79dea5 and 7f4db16). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.