Broekvelden
Dutch
Etymology
Attested as BROEKVELDEN (DE) in 1840. Compound of broek (“marsh, marshland”) and the plural form of veld (“field”). Named after a polder.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Broek‧vel‧den
Proper noun
Broekvelden n
- A neighbourhood of Bodegraven-Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
References
- van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “broekvelden”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN