Holysloot

Dutch

Etymology

First attested as holensloot in 1343. Compound of an inflected form of Middle Dutch hol (“low-lying, deep, swampy”) and sloot (“ditch”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Ho‧ly‧sloot

Proper noun

Holysloot n

1. A village and former municipality of Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

References

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