Langeheit

Dutch

Etymology

Attested as inde heyde and inde heyd in 1600. Compound of lang (“long”) and heide (“heath, heathland”) used here in a dialectal sense to refer to an open field between two villages.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Lan‧ge‧heit

Proper noun

Langeheit n

1. A neighbourhood of Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

References

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