Pendrecht
Dutch
Etymology
First attested as pahindrecht and pagindrecht in 1114-1127. Compound of a personal name, a hydronym, or an inflected form of Middle Dutch page (“horse”) and drecht (“ferry, watercourse”). The name originally referred to a village which was destroyed by the sea in 1421.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Pen‧drecht
Proper noun
Pendrecht n
- A neighbourhood of Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
Derived terms
- Pendrechter
- Pendrechts
References
- van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “pendrecht”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN