Wiktionary

Adegeest

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

Attested as Noort-Hofflants off Adegeester polder in 1647. Potentially a compound of a personal name or the hydronym Ade (derived from a hypercorrection of aa (“water, river”)) and geest (“elevated sandy land”). Named after a former manor.

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: Ade‧geest

Proper noun edit

Adegeest n

  1. A neighbourhood of Voorschoten, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

References edit

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