Kruisland

Dutch

Alternative forms

Kröslaant (dialect form)

Etymology

First attested as Cruyslande in 1501. Compound of kruis (“cross”) and land (“land”). The name may have been coined as a reference to the large sums of money that the inhabitants of the settlement were forced to pay in order to ransom the owner of the village, Engelbrecht of Nassau (1451-1504).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkrœy̯s.lɑnt/
Hyphenation: Kruis‧land

Proper noun

Kruisland n

A village in Steenbergen, North Brabant, Netherlands
Synonym: Pompedurp (Carnival nickname)

Derived terms

References

van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN