Het Spiegel

Dutch

Etymology

Attested as Het Spiegel around 1734. Derived from spiegel (“mirror”). Named after a piece of land shaped roughly like a convex mirror.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Het Spie‧gel

Proper noun

Het Spiegel n

1. A neighbourhood of Gooise Meren, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Derived terms

• Spiegelzicht

References

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