Westerbork
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested as burch in 1206. Compound of wester (“western, west-”) and either Middle Dutch borg (“castle”) or borg (“type of tree, perhaps a birch”). Compare Borculo, Borgele, Borkel en Schaft, Bulkenaar and Schipborg.
See also Dutch Low Saxon Börk.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌʋɛs.tərˈbɔrk/, /ˈʋɛs.tərˌbɔrk/
- Hyphenation: Wes‧ter‧bork
- Rhymes: -ɔrk, -ɛstərbɔrk
Proper noun
[edit]Westerbork n
- A village and former municipality of Midden-Drenthe, Drenthe, Netherlands; during World War II a transit concentration camp was located nearby, now the site of a World War II memorial and a radio telescope array
Usage notes
[edit]The local pronunciation of the toponym stresses the final syllable. Outside of the village and its direct environs, the toponym is pronounced with stress on the first syllable.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
Categories:
- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɔrk
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɔrk/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛstərbɔrk
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛstərbɔrk/3 syllables
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch neuter nouns
- nl:Villages in Drenthe, Netherlands
- nl:Villages in the Netherlands
- nl:Historical political subdivisions
- nl:Places in Drenthe, Netherlands
- nl:Places in the Netherlands