Krabbendam

Dutch

Etymology

First attested as crabbendamme in 1413-1414. Potentially formed analogously to krabbendijk (“sea defence consisting of wooden poles located in front of the main levee”). Compare Krabbendijke.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Krab‧ben‧dam

Proper noun

Krabbendam n

  1. a village in Schagen, North Holland, Netherlands

References

  • van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “krabbendam”, 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.