Holysloot
Dutch
Etymology
First attested as holensloot in 1343. Compound of an inflected form of Middle Dutch hol (“low-lying, deep, swampy”) and sloot (“ditch”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Ho‧ly‧sloot
Proper noun
Holysloot n
- A village and former municipality of Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
References
- van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “holysloot”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN