Moordrecht

Dutch

Alternative forms

• Moort (dialect form)

Etymology

First attested as mordreth in 1250. Compound of a variant of Middle Dutch moer (“peat bog, fenland”) and -drecht (“ferry, watercourse”).

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: Moor‧drecht

Proper noun

Moordrecht n

1. A village and former municipality of Zuidplas, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

Derived terms

• Moordrechter
• Moordrechts

References

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