Overschie

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

Hyphenation: Over‧schie

Proper noun edit

Overschie n

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

References edit

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