Feijenoord

Dutch

Etymology

Attested as Fyen Noort in 1624. Compound of Feije (a personal name) and oord (“land protruding into or bordering water”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Feij‧en‧oord

Proper noun

Feijenoord n

  1. a neighbourhood of Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Derived terms

  • Feijenoorder
  • Feijenoords

References

  • van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “feijenoord”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎[1] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.