Kruisland
Dutch
Alternative forms
- Kröslaant (dialect form)
Etymology
First attested as Cruyslande in 1501. Compound of kruis (“cross”) and land (“land”). The name may have been coined as a reference to the large sums of money that the inhabitants of the settlement were forced to pay in order to ransom the owner of the village, Engelbrecht of Nassau (1451-1504).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkrœy̯s.lɑnt/
- Hyphenation: Kruis‧land
Proper noun
Kruisland n
- A village in Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.
- Synonym: Pompedurp (Carnival nickname)
Derived terms
- Kruislander
- Kruislands
References
- van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN