Nieuw Engeland

Dutch

Etymology

• (Utrecht) Derived from nieuw (“new”) and an unclear second element. The second element may be Engeland (“England”), a compound of eng (“narrow, tight”) and land (“land”) or dialectal england (“meadow”).
• (Zuid-Holland) Attested as Nieuw Engelandsche Polder in 1866. Derived from nieuw (“new”) and the toponym Engeland. Potentially named after the country.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Nieuw En‧ge‧land

Proper noun

Nieuw Engeland n

1. A neighbourhood of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.
2. A neighbourhood of Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

References

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