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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch Voorschoten.
Proper noun
Voorschoten
- A village and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
Dutch
Etymology
First attested as forschate in 918-948. Compound of the hydronym Fore and Old Frisian schate (“piece of land which juts upwards”). Compare Veur and Voorburg.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Voor‧scho‧ten
Proper noun
Voorschoten n
- A village and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands
Derived terms
References
- van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “voorschoten”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN