Spikvoorde

Dutch

Etymology

First attested as het Spijkvoorde in 1830-1855. Compound of a variant of spek (“brushwood”) and voorde (“ford, crossing”). Named after a former farmstead.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspɪk.voːr.də/
  • Hyphenation: Spik‧voor‧de

Proper noun

Spikvoorde n

  1. a neighbourhood of Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands

Derived terms

References

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