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Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɦɔf.stɑt/
- Hyphenation: Hof‧stad
Etymology 1
Compound of hof (“court”) + stad (“city”). Named after the Binnenhof, which originally was the seat of the Counts of Holland and now houses the Dutch parliament.
Proper noun
Hofstad f
- (always with definite article) The Hague
- Synonym: Den Haag
De Hofstad met haar grote Indische gemeenschap was de belangrijkste scene van de indorock.- The Hague, with its large community of Indo descent, was the most important scene of Indo rock.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
- (Noord-Brabant) First attested as Hofstad in 1838-1857. Derived from hofstad (“farmstead, homestead”).
- (Utrecht) Derived from the toponym Westrummerhofstad (a former village), a compound of the toponym Westrum (derived in turn from Middle Dutch wester (“western, west-”) and heem (“home, settlement”)) and hovestat (“homestead”). As the neighbourhood is located in the southeast of Houten, it was decided to drop the element Westrummer.
Proper noun
Hofstad n
- A neighbourhood of Bladel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.
- A neighbourhood of Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands.
References
- van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “hofstad”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN