Overslingeland

Dutch

Etymology

First attested as sclinclant in 1263. Compound of over (“upper, upriver”), Middle Dutch slinc (“left, leftward”) and lant (“land”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Over‧slin‧ge‧land

Proper noun

Overslingeland n

1. A hamlet in Molenlanden, South Holland, Netherlands

References

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