Voorschoten
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Dutch Voorschoten.
Proper noun
[edit]Voorschoten
- A village and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested as forschate in 918-948. Compound of the hydronym Fore and Old Frisian schate (“piece of land which juts upwards”). Compare Veur and Voorburg.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: Voor‧scho‧ten
Proper noun
[edit]Voorschoten n
- A village and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands
Derived terms
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- English terms borrowed from Dutch
- English terms derived from Dutch
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Villages in South Holland, Netherlands
- en:Villages in the Netherlands
- en:Municipalities of South Holland, Netherlands
- en:Municipalities of the Netherlands
- en:Places in South Holland, Netherlands
- en:Places in the Netherlands
- Dutch terms derived from Old Frisian
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch neuter nouns
- nl:Villages in South Holland, Netherlands
- nl:Villages in the Netherlands
- nl:Municipalities of South Holland, Netherlands
- nl:Municipalities of the Netherlands
- nl:Places in South Holland, Netherlands
- nl:Places in the Netherlands