Flanders
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Etymology[edit]
From French Flandres, from Dutch Vlaanderen pl, from Middle Dutch Vlander, from Old Frisian, from Proto-Germanic *flaumdra (“waterlogged land”), from *flaumaz (“flowing, current (water)”) (compare Old High German weraltfloum (“transitoriness of life”), Old Norse flaumr (“eddy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *plow-m- (“flow”) (compare Ancient Greek πλῠ́μα (plúma, “dishwater, washing water”)). More at flow. "Waterlogged" refers to the mudflats and salt marshes common to coastal Flanders.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈflɑːn.dəz/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈflæn.dɚz/
- Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːndə(ɹ)z, (General American) -ændə(ɹ)z
Proper noun[edit]
Flanders
- The County of Flanders, of varying extent.
- 1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
- When you went / Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold / To carry into Flanders the great seal.
- A subnational state in the north of federal Belgium, the institutional merger of a territorial region and the Dutch language 'community' which also has/shares some authority in the capital region Brussels.
- Two provinces in Belgian Flanders: (West-Flanders and East-Flanders).
- Short for French Flanders, a former province of the French kingdom on territory taken from the above countship, now constituting the French department Nord.
- The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.
- A surname.
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Translations[edit]
subnational state in the north of federal Belgium
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historical county
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two provinces in Belgium
former province and region of northern France
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