Kruisland
Dutch edit
Alternative forms edit
- Kröslaant (dialect form)
Etymology edit
First attested as Cruyslande in 1501. Compound of kruis (“cross”) and land (“land”). The name may have been coined as a reference to the large sums of money that the inhabitants of the settlement were forced to pay in order to ransom the owner of the village, Engelbrecht of Nassau (1451-1504).
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Proper noun edit
Kruisland n
- A village in Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.
- Synonym: Pompedurp (Carnival nickname)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN