Kerkrade
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English
Etymology
Proper noun
Kerkrade
- A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Dutch
Etymology
First attested as ad ecclesiam in predio quod est Rode in 1108. Compound of kerk (“church”) and rode (“land cleared of trees”) (from Middle Dutch rods, ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *ruddjan (“to clear”)).
See also Central Franconian Kirchroa.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kerkrade n
- A city and municipality of Limburg, Netherlands
- Meronyms: Eygelshoven, Ham
Derived terms
References
- van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “kerkrade”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard[1] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
German
Alternative forms
- Kirchrath (still often in the border region, otherwise archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch Kerkrade. The alternative second-syllable stress is by analogy with German placenames in -rade, -rode, which are often (though not always) stressed on the suffix.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kerkrade n (proper noun, genitive Kerkrades or (optionally with an article) Kerkrade)
- Kerkrade (a city in the Netherlands, on the German border)
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- English terms borrowed from Dutch
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- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Municipalities of Limburg, Netherlands
- en:Municipalities of the Netherlands
- en:Places in Limburg, Netherlands
- en:Places in the Netherlands
- Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛrkraːdə
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛrkraːdə/3 syllables
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch neuter nouns
- nl:Cities in Limburg, Netherlands
- nl:Cities in the Netherlands
- nl:Municipalities of Limburg, Netherlands
- nl:Municipalities of the Netherlands
- nl:Places in Limburg, Netherlands
- nl:Places in the Netherlands
- German terms borrowed from Dutch
- German terms derived from Dutch
- German 3-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
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- de:Cities in the Netherlands
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