Langeheit

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

Attested as inde heyde and inde heyd in 1600. Compound of lang (“long”) and heide (“heath, heathland”) used here in a dialectal sense to refer to an open field between two villages.

Pronunciation edit

Hyphenation: Lan‧ge‧heit

Proper noun edit

Langeheit n

A neighbourhood of Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

References edit

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