beemd

From Middle Dutch beemt, bempt (13th century). Cognate with Limburgish baandj, Ripuarian Bänd (both roughly “hayfield, wet meadow, floodplain”). Thought to be derived from an underlying Middle Dutch *banmade (“communal hayfield”), from ban (“jurisdiction”) + made (“meadow”), respectively from Proto-Germanic *bannaz and *mēdwō. The uncontracted form is possibly attested in the medieval placename Langobanomothe (also Langbanemente, Langebamet) near Xanten.

• IPA^(key): /beːmt/

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• Hyphenation: beemd
• Rhymes: -eːmt

beemd m (plural beemden, diminutive beemdje n)

1. low-lying pasture or meadow near water, e.g. a floodplain or a grassy polder

   Hypernyms: grasland, laagland, weiland

   • 1974, Thijs van Leer & Jan Akkerman, "Hamburger Concerto", Focus, Hamburger Concerto, quoting Vondel, "O, Kerstnacht schoner dan de dagen".

     Hij tracht d' onnozelen te vernielen / Door het doden van onnozele zielen / En wekt een stad en landgeschrei / In Bethlehem en op den akker / En maakt den geest van Rachel wakker / Die waren gaat door beemd en wei

     He tries to exterminate the innocent / by killing innocent souls / and rouses weeping in town and country / in Bethlehem and on the field / and awakens the ghost of Rachel / who begins to haunt through moor and pasture

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