Scheveningen
English
Proper noun
Scheveningen
- A neighbourhood in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands.
Dutch
Etymology
First attested as scevenighe and scevenighen in 1280–1287. Potentially derived from the dative plural form of Old Dutch *Sceven (“a personal name”) suffixed with the collectivising suffix -ing-.
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Sche‧ve‧nin‧gen
Proper noun
Scheveningen n
- A neighbourhood of Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
- Synonym: Skiffa (slang, nickname)
Derived terms
- Scheveninger
- Schevenings
References
- van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “scheveningen”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN