Wijdenes

Dutch

Alternative forms

• Venès (West Frisian)

Etymology

First attested as widenesse around 1312. Compound of Middle Dutch wide (“wide”) and nesse (“headland, spit”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Wij‧de‧nes

Proper noun

Wijdenes n

1. A village and former municipality of Drechterland, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Derived terms

• Wijdenesser

References

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