Lijnden

Dutch

Alternative forms

• Lienden (Gelderland, dialect form)

Etymology

• (Noord-Holland) Attested as Stoomgemaal-de-Lijnden in 1867. Named after a steam-powered pumphouse named in turn after engineer Frans Godert baron van Lynden van Hemmen. See Linden.
• (Gelderland) First attested as de lino in the 11th century. Etymology uncertain. Potentially derived from Latin linum (“flax, Linum usitatissimum”), Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, Linum usitatissimum”) or Middle Dutch lijn (“rope”). An alternative possibility is a derivation from Proto-Germanic *hlîn- (“Norway maple, Acer platanoides”) (see Old Norse hlynr). Finally, a reinterpretation of older forms of the name might have given rise to a derivation from Middle Dutch lijnde (“rope, rope used to demarcate property lines”) or dialectal liende (“linden, Tilia sp.”) (see linde).

Compare Lienden, Linden, Linne and Linschoten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛi̯n.də(n)/
• Hyphenation: Lijn‧den
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯ndən
• Homophone: Lynden

Proper noun

Lijnden n

1. A village in Haarlemmermeer, North Holland, Netherlands
2. A hamlet in Overbetuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands

Derived terms

• Lijndenaar
• Lijndens

References

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “lijnden”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎^[1] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN