vlonder

Dutch

Een vlonder door een drassig gebied.

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vlonder, from Old Dutch *flonder, from Proto-West Germanic *flonþr. Has also occasionally been seen as a by-form of vonder, but this is controversial. This latter hypothesis has most recently been advocated for by de Vaan, who argues that it is very unlikely that the two words do not share an origin, and argues for an ultimate derivation from Proto-Indo-European *pent-, whence also e.g. Latin pōns (“bridge”), English path.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvlɔn.dər/

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• Hyphenation: vlon‧der
• Rhymes: -ɔndər

Noun

vlonder m (plural vlonders, diminutive vlondertje n)

1. wooden walkway over a creek, a duckboard
2. wooden patio or floor

Derived terms

• vlonderpad

Descendants

• → German: Funder (dialectal)

Further reading

• vlonder on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl