Waalre

Borrowed from Dutch Waalre.

Waalre

1. A village and municipality of North Brabant, Netherlands.

• Woldere (dialect form)

First attested as waetriloe in 704. Compound of an uncertain first element and lo (“light forest”). The first element has been variously interpreted as Old Dutch weder (“ram”), a compound of Middle Dutch wede (“forest, brushwood”) and aard (“farmland”) and wad (“crossing, ford”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋaːl.rə/

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• Hyphenation: Waal‧re

Waalre n

1. a village and municipality of North Brabant, Netherlands

   Synonym: Keiengat (Carnival nickname)

   Meronyms: Aalst, Achtereind, Ekenrooi, Heikant, Heuvel, Loon, Timmereind

• Waalrenaar
• Waalres

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN