Kortrijk
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested as kurtryke and kortrike in 1217. Derived from Middle Dutch Kortrike (“Courtrai”), from earlier Medieval Latin forms Curtraco, Curtriaco, Corturiacensis, as old as Late Latin Cortoriacenses around 400.
Seemingly ultimately of Celtic origin, from the name *Kortoriako(n) with the common placename suffix -ensis. The Celtic word could be based on a Gallo-Roman name Curtorius, perhaps a Latinized Celtic name of unknown meaning (compare currere (“to run”)) with the common Proto-Celtic suffix *-ākos (“belonging to”). Thus, the final meaning would be something like "related to property or land owned by someone named Curtorius."[1][2]
The hamlet is named after the city in Belgium. Compare Demmerik, Hoograven, Laagraven, Kamerik, Kockengen, Parijsch, Pavijen, Portengen, Snel en Polanen and Spengen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Kortrijk n
- A city, municipality, and arrondissement of West Flanders, Belgium
- A hamlet in Stichtse Vecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Maurits Gysseling, Toponymisch Woordenboek van België, Nederland, Luxemburg, Noord-Frankrijk en West-Duitsland (vóór 1226), Tongres, Belgisch Interuniversitair Centrum voor Neerlandistiek, 1960
- ^ Albert Dauzat et Charles Rostaing, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieu en France, Paris, Librairie Guénégaud, 1979, p. 223a.
- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
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- Rhymes:Dutch/ɔrtrɛi̯k
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɔrtrɛi̯k/2 syllables
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- nl:Cities in Belgium
- nl:Municipalities of Belgium
- nl:Places in Belgium
- nl:Villages in Utrecht, Netherlands
- nl:Villages in the Netherlands
- nl:Places in Utrecht, Netherlands
- nl:Places in the Netherlands