Moordrecht
Dutch
Alternative forms
- Moort (dialect form)
Etymology
First attested as mordreth in 1250. Compound of a variant of Middle Dutch moer (“peat bog, fenland”) and drecht (“ferry, watercourse”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Moor‧drecht
Proper noun
Moordrecht n
- A village and former municipality of Zuidplas, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
Derived terms
- Moordrechter
- Moordrechts
References
- van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “moordrecht”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN