Overslingeland
Dutch
Etymology
First attested as sclinclant in 1263. Compound of over (“upper, upriver”), Middle Dutch slinc (“left, leftward”) and lant (“land”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Over‧slin‧ge‧land
Proper noun
Overslingeland n
- A hamlet in Molenlanden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
References
- van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “overslingeland”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN