Petten

Dutch

Etymology

First attested as pathem [read: puthem] in 918-948. Compound of a variant of Old Dutch put (“well”) and hēm (“home, settlement”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Pet‧ten

Proper noun

Petten n

1. A village and former municipality of Schagen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Derived terms

• Pettenaar
• Pettens

References

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