Klein Engendaal

First attested as Engedaal in 1839-1859. Derived from klein (“small, little”) and a compound of the toponym De Eng and dal (“dale, valley”). Named after a former farmhouse.

a neighbourhood of Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands


Hooch Boulandt

First attested as hooch boulandt in 1629. Archaic spelling of hoog (“high, elevated”) and bouwland (“farmland, agricultural land”). The name derives from a sector of elevated land indicated as fit for the construction of fortifications on a map from 1629 by surveyor Hendrik Verstralen.

a neighbourhood of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands


Leeuwesteyn

First attested in 1630. From Leeuwen (a surname) + -stein (“manor, mansion”). Named after a former estate built by one Willem van Leeuwen.


Rijnvliet

Compound of the hydronym Rijn and vliet (“watercourse, canal”). Named after a former mansion.


De Balije

Named after a former farmhouse currently in use as a community centre.


De Meern

First attested as marne in 1217. Originally a hydronym, derived in turn from Old Dutch mare (“watercourse”).

a village in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands


Vleuten

First attested as floeten and in villa que vocatur flothen in 1130-1161. Derived from Proto-Germanic *flôtina (“stream, watercourse”).

inh

a village and former municipality of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands


Alendorp

First attested as alendhorp in 1238. Compound of Middle Dutch Ale (a personal name) and dorp (“farmstead, village, subsidiary settlement”).

a hamlet in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands


Lage Haar

Attested as Lage-Haar in 1846. Derived from laag (“low”) and haar (“sandy ridge”).


Nedereindseweg

First attested as in den nederen-eynde van jutfaes in 1381-1383. Compound of the toponym Nedereind (derived from Middle Dutch neder (“low, lower”) and ende (“end”)) and wech (“way, road”). Named after a road running through the Nedereind polder.


Ockhuizen

First attested as toechusen in 1280-1287. Compound of Middle Dutch ooc (“smaller piece of land belonging to but separated from a larger area”) or oke (“place where crops have been planted, accreted land”) and the plural form of huus (“house”).


Oudenrijn

First attested as den ouden ryn in 1498. Named after the Oude Rijn river.

a hamlet and former municipality of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands


Stadsdam

First attested as Stadsdam in 1661. Compound of stad (“city”) and dam (“dam”). Named after a former dam constructed in 1564 by the city of Utrecht.


Themaat

First attested as themaet in 1259. Compound of an unclear first element and Middle Dutch made (“meadow”). The first element may be the preposition te (“at”).


Rijnenburg

Attested as Rijnesteijn in 1665. Compound of the hydronym Rijn and Middle Dutch borch (“fortified settlement, castle”). Named after a polder, named in turn after a former knightly manor.


Blauwkapel

First attested as Den blaucapel in 1575. Compound of blauw (“blue”) and kapel (“chapel”). Named after a chapel with a blue barrel vault.


Lijfland

From Middle Dutch lijflant, ultimately from Estonian liiv.


Grote Oost

(historical) the Baltic coast, the region around the Baltic Sea

(historical) the northeastern Indonesian archipelago


Kleine Oost

(historical) the German and Danish coast of the North Sea

(historical) the southeastern Indonesian archipelago


Groot

→ English: Groot


Kinrooi

First attested as kynre in 1345. Potentially derived from a compound of dialectal keen (“pine tree, Pinus sp.”) and Middle Dutch rode (“land cleared of trees”). Compare Keent and Keinse.
See also Limburgish Kinder.

Meronyms: Geistingen, Kessenich, Molenbeersel, Ophoven


Kessenich

First attested as kesnic in 1102. Derived from Latin Cassinius (a personal name) suffixed with the Gallo-Roman suffix -acum.
See also Limburgish Kèsing, Kaesing.

a village and former municipality of Kinrooi, Belgium


Molenbeersel

First attested as beersele in 1299.
See also Limburgish Bieësel.


Geistingen

First attested as westingue in 1178.
See also Limburgish Geistinge.


Maaseik

First attested as eche in 1139. Compound of the hydronym Maas and Middle Dutch eike (“oak, Quercus robur”). The element Maas was added to distinguish the settlement from Aldeneik and Kessel-Eik.
See also Limburgish Mezeik.

Meronyms: Aldeneik, Berg, De Riet, Dorne, Heppeneert, Gremelslo, Neeroeteren, Opoeteren, Schootsheide, Siemkensheuvel, 't Ven, Voorshoven, Waterloos, Wurfeld


Neeroeteren

First attested as votra in 952. Compound of neer (“lower, downstream”) and the dative plural form of the hydronym Oeter. The toponym contrasts with Opoeteren.

a village and former municipality of Maaseik, Belgium


Opoeteren

First attested as votra in 952. Compound of op (“upper, upstream”) and the dative plural form of the hydronym Oeter. The toponym contrasts with Neeroeteren.


Aldeneik

First attested as eike in 830. Compound of Old Dutch alt (“old”) and eike (“oak, Quercus robur”). The element oud was added at a later date to distinguish the settlement from Maaseik.


Dilsen-Stokkem

Meronyms: Dilsen, Elen, Lanklaar, Rotem, Stokkem


Dilsen

Potentially attested as Feresne around 365, attested with certainty as thilesna in 1062.

a village and former municipality of Dilsen-Stokkem, Belgium


Stokkem

First attested as stockheim in 1181. Compound of Old Dutch stok (“tree trunk, stick”) and hēm (“home, settlement”).

a city and former municipality of Dilsen-Stokkem, Belgium


Lanklaar

First attested as langlaer in 1281. Compound of Middle Dutch lang (“long”) and laar (“intensively cultivated forest”).


Rotem

First attested in 1202. Compound of Old Dutch rode (“land cleared of trees”) and hēm (“home, settlement”).


Grote Homo

Derived from groot (“great, big”) and a corruption of Haumont (a surname). The neighbourhood is named after a house constructed by engineer Joseph Haumont.

a neighbourhood of Dilsen-Stokkem, Belgium


Gerdingen

a village and former municipality of Bree, Belgium


Opitter

First attested as Iteram in 1143. Compound of op (“upper, upstream”) and the hydronym Itter. The hydronym in turn derives from either Proto-Indo-European *id- (“swell, engorge”) or *ajadh- (“bright, clear”). The prefix op was added at a later date to distinguish the settlement from Neeritter. Compare Itteren and Ittervoort.


Bocholt

First attested as bucolt in 1162. Compound of Old Dutch buok (“beech, Fagus sylvatica”) and holt (“rising deciduous forest”).

inh

Meronyms: Kaulille, Reppel


Kaulille

First attested as caulill in 1259. Etymology uncertain.

a village and former municipality of Bocholt, Belgium


Reppel

First attested as replo in 726. Etymology uncertain. Proposed etymologies include a derivation from Latin ripula (“small riverbank”) or from a compound of Old Dutch reip (“strip of land”) and lo (“light forest”).


Oudsbergen

Named after a hill located at the centre of the municipalities which fused to form the new municipality.

Meronyms: Ellikom, Gruitrode, Neerglabbeek, Opglabbeek, Wijshagen


Meert

English: Meert

French: Méert


Grootendijk

Apparently extinct. Cognate with German Grothendieck.


Achel-Statie

Compound of the toponym Achel and statie (“station”). The settlement formerly was the location of a train station.


Hamont

a city and former municipality of Hamont-Achel, Belgium


Hamont-Achel

Meronyms: Achel, Hamont


Grote Heide

/ˈɣroː.tə ˈɦɛi̯.də/

Derived from groot (“great, big”) and heide (“heath, heathland”).


Boseind

Compound of bos (“forest”) and eind (“end, edge”).


Sint-Huibrechts-Lille

First attested as leuetlaus [read: lendlaus] in 712. Derived from the name of Saint Hubertus and a compound of Proto-Germanic *lindō (“linden, Tilia sp.”) and *lauhaz (“light forest”). The element Sint-Huibrechts was added to distinguish the settlement from Kaulille by way of a reference to a local cult of the saint.

a village and former municipality of Pelt, Belgium


Holheide

/ˌɦɔlˈɦɛi̯.də/

First attested as Holven in 1552. Derived from a compound of the toponym Holven (derived in turn from hol (“low-lying, swampy”) and ven (“bog, pool in a marsh or forest”)) and the toponym De Heide (derived in turn from heide (“heath, heathland”)). The village developed through the union of the Holven hamlet and new construction on De Heide, which before then had been a barren field.


Amelterbos

Compound of the toponym Amelte and bos (“forest”).


Asserbos

Compound of the toponym Assen and bos (“forest”).


Gijsbert

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Gīslaberhtaz.


Gooik

Meronyms: Kester, Leerbeek, Oetingen

a village and municipality of Flemish Brabant, Belgium


Oetingen

a village in Gooik, Flemish Brabant, Belgium


Fjodor

Фёдор Фёдор#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Фёдор (Fjódor)


Zuidnederfrankisch

In het aangrenzende Zuidnederfrankisch (Limburgs en Nederrijns) beperkt zich de consequente werking van de regel tot de open oude lange klinkers in deze positie.

1979, J. Goossens, Dialectologie en taalvariatie, in: Verslagen en mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde: nieuwe reeks, year 1979, p. 127 (also at dbnl.nl: volume, article)

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

2012, Maarten van Rossem, Nederland volgens Maarten van Rossem, e-book

Nederland kent twee officieel erkende talen, de al genoemde standaardtaal en het Fries. Daarnaast zijn er nog twee officieel erkende streektalen, namelijk het Limburgs, ofwel het Zuid-Nederfrankisch, en het Nedersaksisch.

Südniederfränkisch zwischen Uerdinger und Benrather Linie
Zuidnederfrankisch tussen Uerdinger en Benrather lijn

2021, Winfried Dolderer, Overmaas – „jenseits der Maas“: Eine historische Annäherung, in: Sebastian Bischoff, Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka, Jens Thiel (eds.), „Mit Belgien ist das so eine Sache ...“ Resultate und Perspektiven der Historischen Belgienforschung (Historiche Belgienforschung, Bd. 9), Waxmann (Verlag) : Münster · New York, p. 15ff., here p. 18, bi-lingual map Abb. 2: Das südniederfränkische Dialektgebiet (Abdruck mit freundlicher Genehmigung des LVR-Instituts für Landeskunde und Regionalgeschichte)

South Low Franconian between the Uerdinger/Uerdingen and Benrather/Benrath line/Line

South Low Franconian
South Low Franconian


BES-eilanden

From the initials of the three islands: Bonaire, (Sint) Eustatius, and Saba.


Halle-Vilvoorde

an arrondissement of Flemish Brabant, Belgium


Waasland

a geographic region in northeastern East Flanders, Belgium


HEERE

Daarom zo zegt de Heere HEERE: omdat gijlieden ijdelheid spreekt, en leugen ziet; daarom, ziet, Ik wil aan u, spreekt de Heere HEERE.

1888, Statenvertaling, Jongbloed edition, Ezekiel 13:13:

Typographical variant of Heere, particularly in Dutch translations of the Bible.


Pajottenland

a geographic region in southwestern Flemish Brabant, Belgium


Voeren

Meronyms: Moelingen, Remersdaal, 's-Gravenvoeren, Sint-Martens-Voeren, Sint-Pieters-Voeren, Teuven


Zenne

An old Germanic or Gaulish word for a watercourse. Zenne, Sinne and Seine are derivatives that can be found as names of Belgian and French rivers, but also in the original name of the municipality of Zonnebeke as Sinnebeche. French speakers call the Belgian river Zenne the Senne and a tributary is the Senette. A more distant relative would be the Dutch river Zaan.

Senne (a now partially covered river in Hainaut, Walloon Brabant and Flemish Brabant, Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium)


Tollembeek

a village in Galmaarden, Flemish Brabant, Belgium


Buitenzorg

From buiten zorg ("beyond [our] concern").
The neighbourhood is named after a former mansion.

Dutch East Indies
Dutch East Indies#English

Buitenzorg (a city in West Java, Dutch East Indies; modern Bogor)

Buitenzorg (a residency in West Java, Dutch East Indies; modern Bogor)

a neighbourhood of Tholen, Zeeland, Netherlands


Emiel

From Latin Aemilius, a Roman family name possibly from aemulus (“rival”). Cognate with French Émile.

a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Emil


Sint-Niklaas

Meronyms: Belsele, Nieuwkerken-Waas, Sinaai


Sinaai

a village in Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, Belgium


Samber

the Sambre (a river in France and Belgium)


Bogaard

From bogaard, a contracted form of boomgaard (“orchard”).


Demesmaeker

French: Demesmaeker


Degeyter

English: Degeyter

French: Degeyter


Denderleeuw

From Dender (“the river Dender”) + leeuw (“burial mound”).

compound

Meronyms: Iddergem, Welle

a municipality of East Flanders, Belgium


Denderwindeke

a village in Ninove, East Flanders, Belgium


Ninove

Meronyms: Appelterre-Eichem, Aspelare, Denderwindeke, Lieferinge, Meerbeke, Nederhasselt, Neigem, Okegem, Outer, Pollare, Voorde


Beersel

Meronyms: Alsemberg, Dworp, Huizingen, Lot

a village and municipality of Flemish Brabant, Belgium


Dworp

From the name of a brook running through the village, first attested as Tornepe.

a village in Beersel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium


Centraal-Azië

Holonym: Azië

Central Asia
Central Asia#English:_Q27275

Central Asia (a landlocked geographic area of continental central Asia comprising Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan)


Oost-Azië

Holonym: Azië

East Asia (a geographic region comprising the eastern part of Asia, inclusive of China proper, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan and sometimes inclusive of Mongolia and Tibet and some or all of Southeast Asia and the Philippines)


Zuid-Azië

Holonym: Azië

South Asia (a geographic region of Asia, comprising all the countries of the Indian subcontinent (principally India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan) and the Indian Ocean (principally Sri Lanka, Maldives))


Zuidoost-Azië

Holonym: Azië

Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia#English:_Q11708

Southeast Asia (a geographic region of Asia, comprising the territories of Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam)


Boutersem

From Middle Dutch Bouterseem (c. 1300); an even earlier form Baltreshem lacking L-vocalization is also attested in an early 12th-century Latin text. Contains a name Bouter (corresponding to Old English Bealdhere, Old High German Baldheri or Baldhere; more at Bouterse) with the common toponymic element -em (corresponding to heem).

a municipality in Flemish Brabant province, Belgium


Noer-Soeltan

Transliteration of Kazakh Нұр-Сұлтан (Nūr-Sūltan)

translit

De opstand verliep erg spontaan, escaleerde snel en concentreerde zich vooral in Almaty en niet in ^([sic]) hoofdstad Noer-Soeltan.

2022 January 9, Eva Cukier, “‘De machtswisseling in Kazachstan was nooit echt, dat is precies waarom de bevolking zo boos is’ ['The change of power in Kazakhstan was never real, which is exactly why the population is so angry']”, in NRC Handelsblad, retrieved 2022-09-14:

The uprising proceeded very spontaneously, escalated rapidly and was concentrated mainly in Almaty and not in the capital Nur-Sultan.

Nur-Sultan (former name of Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan)


Stichtse Vecht

Derived from Sticht (“the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht”) and the hydronym Vecht. The municipality is named after the section of the Vecht river which belonged to the Prince-Bishopric.

Meronyms: Breukelen, De Glashut, Gieltjesdorp, Kerklaan, Kockengen, Kortrijk, Laag-Nieuwkoop, Loenen aan de Vecht, Loenersloot, Maarssen, Maarssenbroek, Maarsseveen, Mijnden, Molenpolder, Nieuwerhoek, Nieuwersluis, Nieuwer Ter Aa, Nigtevecht, Oud-Aa, Oud-Maarsseveen, Oud Over, Oud-Zuilen, Oukoop, Portengen, Portengense Brug, Scheendijk, Spengen, Tienhoven, Vreeland


Brasschaat

Meronyms: Maria-ter-Heide, Vriesdonk

a village and municipality of the province of Antwerp, Belgium


Stadszicht

Compound of stad (“city”) and zicht (“view”).


Eppie

From Ep + -ie, the diminutive suffix here having a hypocoristic function.


Maanfeest

From Maan + feest, a calque of French fête de la lune.


Twan

From French Antoine, with elision of the first syllable.


ABVG

w:General Union of the Food and Stimulant Industries

initialism of Algemene Bedrijfsbond Voedings- en Genotmiddelen


De Dode Hond

Derived from dood (“dead”) and hond (“dog”). The island is named after a dog owned by construction workers working on nearby land reclamation projects. When the dog died, it was allegedly buried on the island.


De Visdief

Derived from visdief (“common tern, Sterna hirundo”). The island is named after the presence of various wildfowl, including common terns.


Huizerhoef

Compound of the toponym Huizen and hoef (“hoof”). The island is named for its hoof shape.


De Schelp

Derived from schelp (“shell”). The atoll is shaped roughly like a bivalve seashell.


Hooft

The island is named after poet and author Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581 - 1647). Hooft occupied administrative positions in nearby Muiden and Naarden. See also Drost and Warenar.


Warenar

The island is named after the eponymous character of the play Warenar by poet and author Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581 - 1647). Hooft occupied administrative positions in nearby Muiden and Naarden. See also Drost and Hooft.


Vuurtoreneiland

Compound of vuurtoren (“lighthouse”) and eiland (“island”). The island hosts a lighthouse.

A small island nearby Amsterdam in the province of North Holland, Netherlands


Faljeril

an island in the Kagerplassen in South Holland, Netherlands


Eupen

From Middle Dutch Oepen. See German Eupen below for more.

German-speaking Community
w:German-speaking Community

Eupen, a town in German-speaking Community, province of Liège, Belgium


Vervaeke

Contraction of van der Vaeke; see ver-. Appellative of Middle Dutch vake (“wattle dam in a river”), and see Vake, part of Maldegem, a municipality in East Flanders.


Anslo

Adapted borrowing of Old Norse Ósló, Ásló, from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god”) + *lauhaz (“clearing, meadow”).

Oslo (a city and municipality, the capital of Norway; official name: Oslo)


Hindoestaans

Caribbean Hindustani
Caribbean Hindustani

Caribbean Hindustani, an Indo-Aryan language based on Bhojpuri and Awadhi spoken in Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago; especially Sarnami, the Surinamese variety

Hindustani, the Indo-Aryan language of which Hindi and Urdu are literary standards


Stedenhanze

From stad (“city, town”) + -en- + Hanze (“Hanseatic League”), calque of German Städtehanse.

compound

Hanseatic League of Cities
Hanseatic League of Cities

Hanseatic League of Cities (loose association of the governments of towns and cities aligned with the Hanseatic League)


van der Vegte

van de Vegte (alternative)
van der Vegt (alternative)
van de Vegt (alternative)
van der Vecht (alternative)
van de Vecht (alternative)


Voorne aan Zee

→ Zealandic: Vore an Zeê (calque)

Derived from the toponym Voorne, aan (“on”) and zee (“sea”).

Meronyms: Brielle, Helhoek, Hellevoetsluis, IJzerenbrug, Kruiningergors, Nieuwenhoorn, Nieuw-Helvoet, Oostvoorne, Oudenhoorn, Rockanje, Strype, Stuifakker, Tinte, Vierpolders, Zwartewaal

a municipality of South Holland, Netherlands


Pistorius

From Latin Pistorius, from pistor. A latinized surname for a baker or miller.

Pistorius: a surname originating as an occupation


Blomkamp

English: Blomkamp

Afrikaans: Blomkamp

From blom (“bloom”) + kamp (“camp”), literally “field of flowers”.

Blomkamp: a surname, equivalent to English Bloomfield


Keuls

From Middle Dutch coolsch. Equivalent to Keulen + -s.


Amstelkwartier

From Amstel + kwartier, from the early 21st century.

a neighborhood of Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands


Diemerpark

a large park between the suburb Diemen and the neighborhood of IJburg, Amsterdam


Zeeburgereiland

Holonym: IJburg

A man-made island in the IJ and neighborhood (a part of IJburg) in eastern Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands


Steigereiland

Holonym: IJburg


IJmeer

A lake in the Netherlands between Amsterdam and Almere; formerly part of the Zuiderzee


Pertjajah Luhur

From Javanese percaya (“to believe, to have trust”) + Javanese luhur (“high, great, revered”).

bor

Pertjajah Luhur, a political party in Suriname


Middelzee

(historical) the estuary of the river Boorne, which until the High Middle Ages separated the Westergoa and Eastergoa regions of Friesland


Bruynzeel

From French Brunseaux, from Old High German Bruno + Latin -icellus.


Gouwzee

Holonym: Markermeer

a lake in the Netherlands, specifically the part of the Markermeer that is located to the west of Marken


Trintelzand

an artificial archipelago in lake Markermeer near Enkhuizen


Zeeuws-Vlaanderen

Literally, “Zeelandic Flanders”, as it is the part of the province of Zeeland which is located on the mainland directly attached to the region of Flanders in Belgium.

an area of Zeeland, the Netherlands: Zeelandic Flanders


Zuidereiland

From zuid + -er- + eiland, a calque of English South Island.


Houtribdijk

Compound of Houtrib + dijk. The Houtrib was a fairway roughly between Enkhuizen and Urk.

a large dike separating the IJsselmeer from the Markermeer, connecting Enkhuizen, North Holland, and Lelystad, Flevoland


Audierne

Audierne (a town in Finistère department, Brittany, France)


Odjern

(obsolete) alternative spelling of Audierne


Vogelaar

a surname originating as an occupation, meaning bird hunter


NMBS

w:Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen

(rail transport) initialism of Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen (“National Railway Company of Belgium”)


Quackjeswater

a lake in South Holland, Netherlands, near the western shore of the island of Voorne.


Folkmar

From Old Dutch *Folcmār, from Proto-West Germanic *Folkmārī, equivalent to Old Dutch folc (people) + māri (“famous”).


Teunis

a male given name, equivalent to English Tony


Reinier

From Middle Dutch Reynier, from Old French Reinier, from Proto-West Germanic *Raginahari, from Proto-Germanic *Raginaharjaz.


Tiny

Hypocoristic form of Martijn/Martinus, Constantijn and other names ending in -tijn.


Opzoomer

From Bergen op Zoom + -er, a city in the Netherlands.


Biebrza

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Biebrza.


Borgerokko

Blend of Borgerhout + Marokko
Earliest attestation from a 1985 song by the Antwerp band De Strangers, named "Borgeri-Borgerhout-Borgerocco".
The right-wing Antwerp satirical magazine 't Pallieterke started using the term in 1988 or earlier; it was for a while mainly used in a derogatory way, most notably by the Vlaams Blok, to indicate alienation.
Now self-appropriated by the locals of Moroccan descent in a humorous way.

(Belgium, originally derogatory, now mostly humorous) nickname for Borgerhout, a district of Antwerp, because of its large Moroccan population

't Pallieterke
Vlaams Blok
nl:De Strangers (muziekgroep)


Alblasserwaard

Univerbation of Alblasser (“of or pertaining to Alblas”) + waard (“riverine island”).


Lauwers

a river in the provinces of Friesland and Groningen, Netherlands


Drentse Aa

From Drents and the common hydronymic element Aa.

a river in the provinces of Drenthe and Groningen, Netherlands


Noord-Afrika

Compound of noord (“north”) + Afrika (“Africa”).

North Africa
North Africa#English:_Q27381

North Africa (a geographic region comprising the northern part of Africa, usually referring to specifically the regions north of the Sahara Desert where Arabic is widely spoken as a mother tongue)


Eem

From Middle Dutch Eme. The hydronym Amer/Hamer (as in Amersfoort and Hamersveld-Oud) is of the same origin.


Wout

Clipping of Wouter and related names with Proto-Germanic *waldaz.


Luxemburgertje

nl-noun-dim

Luxemburgertje n (plural Luxemburgertjes)


Suryoyo

Turoyo (a Central Neo-Aramaic language traditionally spoken in the Tur Abdin region in southeastern Turkey and in northern Syria)


Taedong

The river that flows through Pyongyang in North Korea.


stikstofcrisis

Compound of stikstof (“nitrogen”) + crisis (“crisis”).

compound

an ecological, legal and political crisis in the Netherlands since 2019 caused by structural excessive deposition (and emission) of reactive nitrogen beyond European norms


Geul

A river in Belgium and Netherlands. In the Netherlands the river flows into the Meuse as a tributary in the province of Limburg.


Waddeneilanden

The plural waddeneilanden of waddeneiland (“island on a tidal mudflat”) used as a proper noun.

De Waddeneilanden zijn belangrijk voor trekkende vogels.

The Frisian Islands are important for migrating birds.

Frisian Islands (an archipelago of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark, separating the Wadden Sea from the North Sea)


Vogelkop

desc

English: → Vogelkop, → Bird's Head (calque)

Vogelkop; the Bird's Head peninsula in Indonesia.


bv Nederland

Literally, “The Netherlands, ltd.”. Attested from c. 1980 onwards, when it was popularized by a television programme of the same name (previously known as Wat voor weer zou het zijn in Den Haag?) broadcast by the Dutch public broadcaster VARA. Compare English UK plc, GB plc and Singapore Inc.

Door geen andere oriëntatie dan die op het geloof te erkennen, stagneert de bv Nederland.

2012, Froukje Santing, Dwars op de tijdgeest:

By recognizing no orientation other than than that of faith, the Netherlands, ltd. stagnates.

De BV Nederland doet het in de jaren tachtig en zeker in de jaren negentig heel goed.

2013, Jan Roelofs, Koopman, dominee, kunstenaar. Uitdagingen en kernkwaliteiten van de Nederlandse man:

The Netherlands, ltd. did very well in the 80s, and certainly in the 90s.

Ook het besef dat de BV Nederland juist bij grote sportevenementen gebaat kan zijn, is er nog te weinig.

2021, Jaap de Groot, De magie van Max Verstappen:

There is still too little awareness that the Netherlands, ltd. can benefit from large sporting events.

(politics) the Netherlands viewed as if it were a private enterprise, to be developed in light of the global market and international competition


Heystek

The second sense is borrowed from Afrikaans Heystek.


Willebroek

From Middle Dutch Wildebroec, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī (“wild”) + *brōk (“marsh”).

inh

a city and municipality in the province of Antwerp, Belgium


Harmen

a male given name, equivalent to English Herman


Slangeneiland

Calque of Ukrainian О́стрів Змії́ний (Óstriv Zmijínyj).

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О́стрів Змії́ний

Snake Island, an island of Ukraine in the Black Sea.


Izjoem

From Ukrainian Ізюм (Izjum) / Russian Изю́м (Izjúm).


Cherson

From Ukrainian Херсо́н (Xersón) / Russian Херсо́н (Xersón).

Kherson, a city, raion and oblast in Ukraine.


Zaporizja

Zaporizhzhia (an industrial city and urban hromada, the administrative center of Zaporizhzhia Raion and Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in south-central Ukraine, on the Dnipro River)

Zaporizhzhia (a raion of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine)

Zaporizhzhia (an oblast in southeast Ukraine, also illicitly claimed by Russia)

(historical) Zaporizhzhia (a geographic region south-central Ukraine, “beyond the rapids” in the lower reaches of the Dnipro River, base of the Zaporozhian Cossacks)


Loehansk

Luhansk, a city, raion and oblast in Ukraine.


Marioepol

From Ukrainian Маріуполь (Mariupolʹ) / Russian Мариуполь (Mariupolʹ).


Kropyvnytsky

From Ukrainian Кропивницький (Kropyvnycʹkyj).

bor

Кропивницький

Kropyvnytskyi, a city and raion of Ukraine.


Tsjerkasy

Cherkasy, a city, raion and oblast in Ukraine.


Tsjernihiv

Tsjernigof (alternative)
Tsjernigov (alternative)

Chernihiv, a city, raion and oblast in Ukraine.


Tsjernivtsi

Chernivtsi, a city, raion and oblast in Ukraine.


Dnjepropetrovsk

From Russian Днепропетро́вск (Dnepropetróvsk).

Днепропетро́вск


Volksrepubliek Loegansk

Volksrepubliek Loehansk
Volksrepubliek Loehansk#Dutch

alternative form of Volksrepubliek Loehansk


Volksrepubliek Donetsk

Calque of Russian Доне́цкая Наро́дная Респу́блика (Donéckaja Naródnaja Respúblika) and Ukrainian Донецька народна республіка (Donecʹka narodna respublika).

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Доне́цкая Наро́дная Респу́блика

Донецька народна республіка

Pal achter de ingang in de hal van het bezette provinciehuis in Donetsk, residentie van de op 7 april 2014 uitgeroepen Volksrepubliek Donetsk, is een apotheek ingericht [...]

2015, Hubert Smeets, chapter 15, in De wraak van Poetin: Rusland contra Europa, Uitgeverij Prometheus, →ISBN:

Dat was van belang voor het functioneren van de door Rusland gesteunde pseudostaten 'Volksrepubliek Donetsk' en de 'Volksrepubliek Loegansk'.

2018, Timothy Snyder, translated by Catalien van Paassen, De weg naar onvrijheid: Rusland, Europa, Amerika, →ISBN:

Anderen hebben een Russisch paspoort, zoals Alexandr Borodaj, die in mei wordt aangesteld tot premier van de Volksrepubliek Donetsk.

2022, Steven Derix, Marina Shelkunova, Zelensky: De oorlogspresident, →ISBN:

Donetsk People's Republic
Donetsk People's Republic#English

Donetsk People's Republic (a self-proclaimed quasi-state, internationally recognized as part of the country of Ukraine; one of two members of the Confederation of Novorossiya.)


Chmelnytsky

From Ukrainian Хмельни́цький (Xmelʹnýcʹkyj).

bor

Хмельни́цький

Khmelnytskyi, a city, raion and oblast in Ukraine.


Soemy

Sumy, a city, raion and oblast in Ukraine.


Vinnytsja

Vinnytsia, a city, raion and oblast in Ukraine.


Wolynië

From Polish Wołyń / Ukrainian Воли́нь (Volýnʹ) + -ië, or perhaps adapted from Latin Volhynia.

(historical) Volhynia (a geographic region of Eastern Europe, now divided between southeastern Poland, northwestern Ukraine, and southwestern Belarus)


Transkarpatië

Zakarpattia, Transcarpathia; an oblast in Ukraine.


Karpatië

By surface analysis, Karpaten + -ië, but likely a loan: compare English Carpathia.

Carpathia (the region of the Carpathian Mountains, in Central Europe)


Zjytomyr

Zhytomyr, a city, raion and oblast in Ukraine.


BV Nederland

alternative letter-case form of bv Nederland


Vreugde der Wet

Calque of Hebrew שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה (simkhát torá).

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שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה


Chanoeklaas

Blend of Chanoeka + Sinterklaas. A similar formation can be found in English Chrismukkah, a merger of Hanukkah and Christmas, and similarly German Weihnukka. (Whereas in many Western countries presents are typically given on Christmas, the Dutch do so on Sinterklaas, yielding this merger of Hanukkah with Sinterklaas instead of with Christmas (Kerst).)

(Judaism) a fusion of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah and the Dutch Christian holiday Sinterklaas, as practised by some Dutch Jews


Channeke

From Yiddish חנוכּה (khaneke), from Hebrew חֲנֻכָּה (chanuká).

(Judaism) synonym of Chanoeka (“Hanukkah”)


Samplonius

Perhaps from Latin simplex (“simple”) First attested in the 17th century with the brothers Johannes Geerts Samplonius and Hessel Geerts Samplonius, who were both pastors in Friesland in the Netherlands.


Cruijffiaans

Cruijffiaans is echter niet een taal die je kunt leren spreken, want alleen Cruijff beheerste die taal.

2020, Rob Siekmann, Cruijffiaans, →ISBN:

However, Cruijffiaans isn't a language you can learn, since only Cruijff mastered that language.

the unique way of speaking by Dutch football player Johan Cruyff


van Rensburg

From van (“from”) + Rensburg; possibly derived from Rijnsburg, a village in South Holland, Netherlands.


van Helsdingen

From van (“from”) + Helsdingen (“a hamlet in Vijfheerenlanden, Utrecht, Netherlands.”).


Gerrie

a diminutive of the male given name Gerrit, Gerard or Gerardus, used also as a legal name in its own right


Presburg

(historical) Pressburg (former name of Bratislava: the capital city of Slovakia)


Tisselt

From Middle Dutch Tieselt, probably from the root of distel + -t, from Proto-Germanic *-iþja- (“collective suffix”).

inh

a town in the municipality of Willebroek, in the province of Antwerp, Belgium


Blaasveld

From Middle Dutch Blaersvelt, probably originated from the Proto-West Germanic name *Bladahari + *felþu (“field”) or a later form of the name with Middle Dutch velt.


Hombeek

From Middle Dutch Hoenechbeke, from honech (“honey”) + bēke (“creek, brook”), meaning 'honey-colored creek'.
It could also be derived from the name Huno.

com

a town in the municipality of Mechelen, in the province of Antwerp, Belgium


Heffen

From Middle Dutch Heffena, most likely from Middle Dutch heffe (“sediment”) + â (“stream of water”).
Other possibilities are a relation to the verb heffen or the noun hoeve (“farmstead”).


Battel

Origin unknown. Could be derived from English battle or French batelier (“riverboatman”)


Hemiksem

From Middle Dutch Hemincsem, from Proto-West Germanic *Hamingas (“genitive of the name Haming”) + *haim (“home”), literally 'Haming's home'.

inh

a municipality in the province of Antwerp, Belgium


Ramsdonk

From Middle Dutch Raemsdonc, from Old Dutch Ramesdun, from ravan (“raven”) + *dung (“sandy hill protruding above a silty area”).

af

a town in the m of Kapelle-op-den-Bos, Flemish Brabant, Belgium


wet van de grote aantallen

wet van de grote getallen (alternative)
wet van grote aantallen (alternative uncommon)
wet van grote getallen (alternative uncommon)
wet der grote aantallen (alternative)
wet der grote getallen (alternative)
wet van het grote aantal (alternative)
wet van het grote getal (alternative)

law of large numbers
law of large numbers


Buggenhout

/ˈbʏ.ɡənˌɦɑu̯t/

From Middle Dutch Bucghenhout, from earlier Bu(c)kenholt, equivalent to Proto-West Germanic *bōkīn (“beechen”) + *holt (“forest”).

der

a municipality of the province of East Flanders, Belgium


Moerkerke

From Middle Dutch Moerkerke, from Old Dutch Murkerka, from *mor (“moor”) + *kirica (“church”).


vetplantenfamilie

From vetplant (“succulent”) + -en- + familie (“family”).

af

(botany) Crassulaceae, the stonecrop family


Manhattan aan de Maas

Literally, “Manhattan on the Meuse”, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the river Meuse which flows through the city and the fact that Rotterdam has significantly more skyscrapers than other Dutch cities. Compare Havana aan de Waal.


Havana aan de Waal

Literally, “Havana on the Waal [river]”, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the river Waal which flows through the city and the fact that Nijmegen is (not in the least due to the leftist student body of its university) a left-leaning city. Compare the similarly-formed Manhattan aan de Maas.


Keizerstad

From keizer (“emperor”) + stad (“city”), referring to the palace Charlemagne is said to have built there.

(always with definite article) synonym of Nijmegen


Geertje

From Geert + -je, the latter being a diminutive suffix that occasionally (as in this case) serves to yield a feminine given name from a masculine one (compare Guusje).


Guusje

From Guus + -je, the latter being a diminutive suffix that occasionally (as in this case) serves to yield a feminine given name from a masculine one (compare Geertje).


Negerengels

/ˈneːɣərˌɛŋəls/

Literally, “Negro English”, compound of neger (“Negro”) + Engels (“English”).

Neger-Engels (alternative)
N.E. (alternative initialism)

Verstaat u Negerengels?

Wilt nu maar Neeger-Engelsch blaffen!

1783-1785, Hendrik Schouten, “Een huishoudelyke twist [A domestic row]”, in Jan Voorhoeve, Ursy M. Lichtveld, editors, Suriname: Spiegel der vaderlandse kooplieden, Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, published 1980, →ISBN, page 194:

Alleen de allerlaagste volksklasse bedient zich van een taal, samengesteld uit een mengelmoes van verschillende talen[,] Neger-Engelsch of taki-taki geheeten, welke taal ook gebezigd wordt bij de bestuurs-aanraking met boschnegers en Indianen.

1931 January 3, [J.H. Heslinga], “Uit onze West. Nederlandsch in Suriname. [From our West-Indies. The Dutch language in Suriname.]”, in De Maasbode, page 10:

Only the very lowest classes of the population use a language made up of a mishmash of different languages, called Negro English or takitaki, which is also used in administrative contacts with Bush Negroes and Indians.

Die overgrootmoeder van me, ze was eigenlijk niet van hier, als je goed berekent. Is van Bridgetown was ze. ‘Bados’ zeggen die mensen van daar want ze weten niet als wij te praten. Badyan... is Badyan praten ze daar, een soort van Negerengels ma' toch een beetje anders als van ons.

2003, Marylin Simons, Carrousel, Paramaribo: Okopipi, →ISBN, page 53:

My great-grandmother, she was actually not from here, strictly speaking. From Bridgetown, she was. 'Bados', the local people say, because they can't speak like us. Bajan... Bajan, they speak there, a kind of Creole, but still a bit different from ours.

Tijdens het gesprek met de Ware Tijd praat zij voor 99 procent alleen Sranantongo. Wat een verschil met vroeger: op jongere leeftijd moest ze haar mond met zeep of tandpasta reinigen als ze deze taal sprak. “Geen pak slaag hoor, dat niet, maar het was niet zo geaccepteerd als nu. Op school kreeg je strafregels: ‘ik mag geen Sranantongo praten’. Toen zei men overigens vooral Negerengels.”

2024 January 19, Tascha Aveloo, “Flos Rustveld: ‘Sranatongo^([sic]) is de taal van mijn hart’ [Flos Rustveld: ‘Sranan Tongo is the language of my heart’]”, in De Ware Tijd, retrieved 2024-03-13:

Talking to de Ware Tijd, for 99 percent [of the time], she speaks only Sranan Tongo. What a contrast with the old days: when she was younger, she had to clean her mouth with soap or toothpaste whenever she spoke this language. "I didn't get spanked, not that, but it wasn't as accepted as it is now. At school I was given lines to write: 'I must not speak Sranan Tongo'. Back then, by the way, people mainly called it Negro English."

(colloquial and dated in Suriname, obsolete and possibly offensive in the Netherlands and Belgium) Sranan Tongo (an English-based creole language and lingua franca in Suriname)


Tamushi

Borrowed from Kari'na, Trió, and Wayana tamusi.

Tamusi (alternative)
Tamoesi (alternative)
Tamoesie (alternative)
Tamoesji (alternative)
Tamoeshi (alternative)

Elke indiaan kent de witachtige plekken aan den hemel, die bij ons als melkweg^([sic]) bekend zijn en weet te vertellen dat het klei, alino of alina, is, wat er den hemel op die plaats zoo onooglijk en bevlekt doet uitzien. Maar niet ieder weer er de herkomst van. De Indiaan^([sic]) echter zegt u, dat die klei afkomstig van de groote bakkerij, welke Tamusi er eenmaal op nahield, toen hij uit alino of alina, klei of leem, bezig was kalina, menschen te maken.

1908 December 20, F.P. Penard, Ph. Penard, “Indiaansche Legenden en Verhalen [Indian legends and stories]”, in De Surinamer, page 1:

Every Indian knows the whitish spots in the sky, known to us as the Milky Way, and will tell you that it is clay, alino or alina, which makes the sky in that place look so unsightly and stained. But not everyone knows their origin. The Indian, however, will tell you that the clay comes from the big pottery that Tamushi once operated there, when he was making kalina, humans, out of alino or alina, clay or loam.

Het eerste uit de grondbegrippen door Tamoesji opgedacht wezen (schepsel) is „wo“ of het eerst^([sic – meaning eerste]) woord = „wo“, dit beteekent mensch (wo-kili = man; wo-li = vrouw).

1915 July 4, J. Mols C.SS.R., “Encyclopædie van Nederlandsch West-Indië. Eén-Godsidee. III. XVI. [Encyclopedia of the Dutch West Indies. Monotheistic Idea. III. XVI.]”, in De Surinamer, page 1:

The first being (creature) conceived by Tamushi from the basic concepts is "wo" or the first word = "wo", which means human (wo-kili = man; wo-li = woman).

Het oude krakeel der westerse mogendheden om de Guyana's mocht zich dan al door de politieke ontwikkelingen gewijzigd hebben in een nieuw krakeel van kleinere potentaatjes, voor de Indianen die noch in Brazilië en Venezuela, noch in Frans-Guyana of in de onafhankelijke Republiek Suriname een bij de wet vastgelegd ‘grondrecht’ bezitten, bracht ook de coöperatieve Republiek Guiana^([sic]) nauwelijks enige verbetering in hun ‘wettelijke’ status. (...) Tamoesi, de onkennelijke, maar immer en overal tegenwoordige Geest door wie al het zijnde is zoals het is, en alles gebeurt zoals wij het zien gebeuren, moge zich over hen ontfermen en hen redden van algehele ondergang.

1983, Albert Helman, De foltering van Eldorado. Een ecologische geschiedenis van de vijf Guyana's [Eldorado's torment. An ecological history of the five Guianas], The Hague: Nijgh & Van Ditmar:

While political developments may have transformed the old squabbling of Western powers over the Guianas into a new squabbling of smaller potentates, even the Cooperative Republic of Guyana did little to improve the 'legal' status of the Amerindians, who do not enjoy a 'land right' enshrined in law in Brazil or Venezuela, French Guiana, or the independent Republic of Suriname, either. (...) May Tamushi, the unknowable but ever- and omnipresent Spirit who causes all being to be is as it is, and everything to happen as we see it happening, have mercy on them and save them from all-out destruction.

De installaties zijn met gebeden van de pater en een sjamaan in gebruik genomen. Er is heilig water gesprenkeld, sigarenrook geblazen om een lang leven voor de apparatuur af te smeken en is Tamushi gedankt voor de kennis om de krachten van de elementen op deze manier toe te passen.

2016 November 17, René Gompers, “Galibi neemt zonne-energiesysteem in gebruik [Galibi inaugurates solar power system]”, in Starnieuws, retrieved 2024-03-18:

The installations were put into use with prayers by the padre and a shaman. Holy water was sprinkled, cigar smoke was blown to invoke long life for the equipment and Tamushi was thanked for the knowledge to harness the powers of the elements in this way.

Laatst zag ik een bericht voorbijkomen over een ‘kinder-evangelisatie’- event. In een inheems dorp. (...) Het wil ook zeggen dat er nog steeds groepen inheemsen zijn die (...) er actief aan meewerken om de inheemse spiritualiteit verder naar de achtergrond te duwen. Het argument dat het toch allemaal één God is, slaat kant noch wal. Als dat zo was dan zouden christenen ook bidden tot Adayali of Tamoeshi. Maar dat doen ze niet.

2024 March 3, Christio Wijnhard, “Doctrine van LGMS [LGMS Doctrine]”, in De Ware Tijd, retrieved 2024-03-15:

The other day I saw a news item come across about a 'children's evangelisation' event. In an Amerindian village. (...) This also means that there are still groups of indigenous people who (...) actively collaborate in pushing indigenous spirituality further into the background. The argument that 'it is all one God after all' makes no sense. If that were so, then Christians would also pray to Adayali or Tamushi. But they don't.

(religion, chiefly Suriname) the preeminent male deity in the belief system of several indigenous peoples in Suriname


Tamoesi

misspelling of Tamsoei (“Tamsui (Taiwan)”)


Zonnekoning

From zon + -e- + koning, calque of French Roi-Soleil.

Sun King (sobriquet of Louis XIV of France)


Hongeren

From Middle Dutch Hongheren; ultimately from the same origin as German Ungarn.


Strandeiland

From strand (“beach”) + eiland (“island”); there is a beach on the island.

Holonym: IJburg

A man-made island in the IJ and neighborhood (a part of IJburg) in eastern Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands


Buiteneiland

From buiten (“outside, out of”) + eiland (“island”). The island owes its name to being the furthest out into the IJmeer of all the islands of the IJburg archipelago, viewed from Amsterdam.

compound

Holonym: IJburg

A man-made island in the IJ (a part of IJburg) in eastern Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands


Centrumeiland

From centrum (“centre”) + eiland (“island”).

Holonym: IJburg


Haveneiland

From haven (“harbor”) + eiland (“island”); there is a harbor on the island.

Holonym: IJburg

A man-made island in the IJ and neighborhood (a part of IJburg) in eastern Amsterdam, North Holland, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands


Rottumeroog

Univerbation of Rottumer (“of or pertaining to Rottum”) + oog (“island”).


Rottumerplaat

Univerbation of Rottumer (“of or pertaining to Rottum”) + plaat; for this sense of plaat, compare zandplaat.


Westwouderpolder

From west + De Woude + -er- + polder, the polder to the west of the village of De Woude (and on which the village itself is in fact also situated), contrasted with the Oostwouderpolder, which is to the east of De Woude.


De Kreupel

an artificial wetland archipelago in lake IJsselmeer, located in the province Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, not far from Andijk


Makkumerwaarden

Meronyms: Makkumer Noordwaard, Makkumer Zuidwaard, Kooiwaard

A group of islands near Makkum in the province of Friesland, The Netherlands.


Castilië

From Spanish Castilla, ultimately from Latin castellum. Doublet of kasteel, chateau, Kessel, castellum, ketella, and telo.

doublet

(historical) Castile (a medieval kingdom and former county in the Iberian Peninsula; the nucleus of modern Spain)

Castile (a vaguely defined geographical region of central Spain generally corresponding to the regions of Old and New Castile)


Hompelvoet

an uninhabited island in South Holland, Netherlands


Nimmegen

(largely obsolete) alternative spelling of Nijmegen


Ingveoons

Probably borrowed from German. Ultimately from Latin Ingaevones, a Germanic tribe mentioned by Tacitus.

Ingvaeoons (alternative dated)
Ingvaeoonsch (alternative obsolete)


Rutger

From German Rütger, from Middle High German Rüedger, from Old High German Ruodgēr, from Proto-West Germanic *Hrōþigaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþigaizaz. Doublet of Rogier.


Ep

a diminutive of the male given names Elbert or Egbert


Baarlem

Blend of baren (“to give birth”) + Haarlem.

blend

(Amsterdam, humorous) the city of Haarlem, viewed by Amsterdam yuppies as a place to move to in order to settle down and have children


Hitland

Shetland Islands
Shetland Islands#English:_Q47134

(obsolete) synonym of Shetland: Shetland Islands (an archipelago and council area of Scotland, roughly north-east of the Orkney Islands; the northernmost part of Scotland and the United Kingdom)


Shetlandeilanden

Shetland Islands (an archipelago and council area of Scotland, roughly north-east of the Orkney Islands; the northernmost part of Scotland and the United Kingdom)


Eurovisie

Eurovision (the Eurovision song contest)


Eurovisiesongfestival

Calque of French Concours Eurovision de la chanson.


Saeftinghe

Meronyms: Namen, Sint-Laureins, Casuwele, Auwersluis

(historical) a former heerlijkheid (fiefdom) and eponymous village in the region of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, The Netherlands, flooded by the sea in the Scheldt estuary since the late sixteenth century


Aalbers

From earlier Aelbers, variant of Aelberts, a patronymic surname from the name Aelbert, Albert.

alternative form of Albers, a surname originating as a patronymic


Aelbers

From Aelberts, a patronymic surname from the name Aelbert, Albert.


Kagerplassen

Univerbation of Kager (“of or from Kaag”) + plassen (“pools, lakes”).

univerbation

a group of lakes by Kaag in South Holland, Netherlands


Sjloume

From Yiddish שלמה (shloyme). Doublet of Salomo.

a male given name from Yiddish, equivalent to English Shlomo


Chandrikapersad

Likely ultimately from Sanskrit [Term?].


Sweet Lake City

From English sweet + lake + city, based on Salt Lake City, modified with a jocular reference to the name of the city Zoetermeer, which may be interpreted to mean “sweet lake”, zoet meaning “sweet” and meer meaning “lake”.

(humorous) synonym of Zoetermeer (“a city in the Netherlands”)


Gordel van Smaragd

Literally, “emerald belt”. Coined by Dutch author Multatuli in 1859.

coinage

Toen wij repatrieerden uit de Gordel van Smaragd / Dat Nederland zo koud was hadden wij toch nooit gedacht

1975, “Geef Mij Maar Nasi Goreng”, in Wieteke van Dort (lyrics), Joop Stokkermans (music), Geef Mij Maar Nasi Goreng, performed by Wieteke van Dort:

When we repatriated from the Dutch East Indies / We could never have imagined it to be that cold in the Netherlands

Dutch East Indies
Dutch East Indies#English:_Q188161

(poetic, historical) Dutch East Indies (a former Dutch colony in modern-day Indonesia, existing from 1800 to 1949)


Opdijk

→ English: Updike


Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie

Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie
Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie#Dutch

superseded spelling of Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (“Dutch East India Company”)


Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie

Literally, “United East Indian Company”.

VOC (alternative initialism)
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (alternative)
V.O.C. (alternative)

Dutch East India Company
Dutch East India Company


Klerk

English: Klerk

Afrikaans: Klerk

Klerk (“a surname originating as an occupation derived from klerk.”)


Ambacht

(informal) clipping of Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht


West-Europa

Compound of west (“west”) + Europa (“Europe”).

Western Europe
Western Europe#English:_Q27496

Western Europe (a sociopolitical region in the west of Europe)


Bijltjesdag

(historical, Netherlands) 30 May 1787, the day that Orangist shipwrights rose up against the republican regent elite of Amsterdam and this uprising was bloodily repressed by the ruling elite


Roer

Roer, Rur; a river originating in Belgium, flowing through Germany to the Netherlands. In the Netherlands the river flows into the Meuse in the province of Limburg.


Voedingscentrum

Voedingscentrum, or Dutch Nutrition Centre, a semi-governmental agency that provides information about nutrition to the public


Moffrika

nl-proper noun

Moffrika n (adjective Moffrikaans, demonym Moffrikaan m)

Moffrikaans (adjective)
Moffrikaan (demonym masculine)
Mofrika (alternative)

19th century. Blend of mof (“Kraut; German”) + Afrika (“Africa”).


Amanoellah

Transliteration of Dari [Term?], from Arabic أَمَان الله (ʔamān allāh).

A transliteration of the Dari male given name [Term?], Amanullah

Toen ik een kleine jongen was en in de krant alleen maar naar de plaatjes keek, bracht de toenmalige koning van Afghanistan, Amanoellah geheten, staatsbezoeken aan de grote Europese hoofdsteden. Hij had een soort kepi op met een grote witte pluim en een vrouw die helemaal Europees gekleed ging, met een klokhoed op (wat toen de mode was). Dat is lange tijd het enige geweest wat ik van Afghanistan wist.

2001 March 8, Jérôme Louis Heldring, “Barbarij en scepsis [Barbary and scepsis]”, in NRC Handelsblad, retrieved 2024-12-19:

When I was a little boy and would only look at the pictures in the newspaper, the king of Afghanistan at the time, called Amanullah, made state visits to the major European capitals. He had a kind of kepi with a big white plume on his head, and a wife dressed entirely in European style, who would wear a cloche hat (which was fashionable at the time). For a long time, that was the only thing I knew about Afghanistan.


MeToo

#MeToo (alternative)
metoo (alternative)

MeToo (movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault)


Onze Lieve Heer

Onze Lieve Heer heeft vreemde kostgangers


Maagdeneilanden

British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands

United States Virgin Islands
United States Virgin Islands

an archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, comprising the British Virgin Islands and the United States Virgin Islands.


KNAW

Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen#Dutch

acronym of Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (“Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences”)

nl:Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen


Sjors

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος (Geṓrgios).


West-Afrika

Compound of west (“west”) + Afrika (“Africa”).

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West Africa (a geographic region comprising the western portion of Africa, spanning 16 countries)


Aesacus

From Latin Aesacus, from Ancient Greek Αἴσᾰκος (Aísăkos).

(Greek mythology) Aesacus (son of Priam who mourned Cebren’s daughter)


Vlooienburg

A former man-made island in the Amstel river and former neighborhood in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands


Mexico-Stad

Calque of Mexican Spanish Ciudad de México, q.v.

calque

Mexico City (the capital city of Mexico)


Brammetje

a diminutive of the male given name Bram, from Hebrew


Jantje

a diminutive of the male given name Jan [=John]


Slettenhaar

The first element is a by-form of sliet (“wooden pole or stake”); the second element is haar (“sandy ridge”). Thus a toponymic surname referring to a place where slieten were produced. Unrelated to slet (“slut”) and haar (“hair”).


KKF

Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken
Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken#Dutch

(Suriname, business) initialism of Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken (“chamber of commerce”)


Tjeerd

Borrowed from West Frisian Tjeerd, Tjaard, from Old Frisian Thiadward and/or Thiadhard, containing the Germanic elements *þeudaz (“people”) and either *wardaz (“ward”) or *harduz (“hard, brave”). Compare German Dietward, Diethard.


Bouterse

From a name Bouter (equivalent to boud (“brave”) + heer (“army”); cognate with Old English Bealdhere, Old High German Baldheri or Baldhere and rendered in Medieval Latin as Baltharius, Baltherius) with the patronymic suffix -se. Compare Boutersem.

(historical) Desi Bouterse, ex-dictator of Suriname.

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Desi Bouterse, ex-dictator of Suriname.


Rampjaar

(historical) Disaster Year (the year 1672 in the context of the Dutch Republic)


Sjouke

Borrowed from West Frisian Sjouke, a variant of Sieuwerd, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Sigiwarduz.


Klozum

A holiday in honor of Saint Nicholas celebrated on the island of Schiermonnikoog.


Bereneiland

→ English: Bear Island (calque)

→ Finnish: Karhusaari (calque)

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: Bjørnøya (calque)

From beer (“bear”) + -en- + eiland (“island”). So-named by Willem Barents in 1596.

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Bear Island (an island of Svalbard, Norway)


Goeree

Contracted form with regular deletion of intervocalic -d-; compare leder / leer, moeder / moer.


Punisch

From Latin pūnicus, adapted with the suffix -isch.


Werkloosheidswet

de Werkloosheidswet (canonical feminine)

From werkloosheid (“unemployment”) + wet (“law”).

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(Netherlands) the legislation governing unemployment benefits in the Netherlands


Balkonië

From balkon (“balcony”) + -ië (“-ia, -y”). Compare German Balkonien meaning the same; the Dutch may be a calque of the German.

(humorous) One’s own balcony, referred to as if it were a vacation destination; the place where one spends one’s staycation.


Handelingen van de apostelen

Literally, “acts of the apostles”; calque of Latin Actūs Apostolōrum.

Acts of the Apostles
Acts of the Apostles


Hand.

Handelingen van de apostelen
Handelingen van de apostelen#Dutch

abbreviation of Handelingen van de apostelen

Handelingen der Apostelen
Handelingen der Apostelen#Dutch

abbreviation of Handelingen der Apostelen


Schasfoort

Richard B. M. Schasfoort, Dutch researcher

Fabienne Carmen Schasfoort, Dutch researcher

Joeri Anton Schasfoort, Belgian economist and YouTuber


Sipaliwini

Possibly ultimately from Lokono shibali (“species of freshwater scaly fish”) + Lokono oni (“rain, river”), possibly influenced by Trió, Wayana, and Kari'na sipari (“stingray”).


Sipaliwini

Sipaliwini District
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Sipaliwini District (a district of Suriname).