Pendrecht

Dutch

Etymology

First attested as pahindrecht and pagindrecht in 1114-1127. Compound of a personal name, a hydronym, or an inflected form of Middle Dutch page (“horse”) and -drecht (“ferry, watercourse”). The name originally referred to a village which was destroyed by the sea in 1421.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Pen‧drecht

Proper noun

Pendrecht n

  1. a neighbourhood of Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Derived terms

  • Pendrechter
  • Pendrechts

References

  • van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “pendrecht”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎[1] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
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