Overschie

Dutch

Etymology

First attested as skie in the first half of the 11th century. Compound of an inflected form of Middle Dutch out (“old”) and the hydronym Schie. The first element was gradually reinterpreted to over (“over, on the other side of”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Over‧schie

Proper noun

Overschie n

1. A neighbourhood and former municipality of Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

References

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