Lijnden

Dutch

Alternative forms
  • (Gelderland) Lienden (dialect form)

Etymology
  • (Noord-Holland) Attested as Stoomgemaal-de-Lijnden in 1867. Named after a steam-powered pumphouse named in turn after engineer Frans Godert baron van Lynden van Hemmen. See Linden.
  • (Gelderland) First attested as de lino in the 11th century. Etymology uncertain. Potentially derived from Latin linum (“flax, Linum usitatissimum”), Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, Linum usitatissimum”) or Middle Dutch lijn (“rope”). An alternative possibility is a derivation from Proto-Germanic *hlîn- (“Norway maple, Acer platanoides”) (see Old Norse hlynr). Finally, a reinterpretation of older forms of the name might have given rise to a derivation from Middle Dutch lijnde (“rope, rope used to demarcate property lines”) or dialectal liende (“linden, Tilia sp.”) (see linde).

Compare Lienden, Linden, Linne and Linschoten.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛi̯n.də(n)/
  • Hyphenation: Lijn‧den
  • Rhymes: -ɛi̯ndən
  • Homophone: Lynden

Proper noun

Lijnden n

  1. A village in Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
  2. A hamlet in Overbetuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands.

Derived terms
  • Lijndenaar
  • Lijndens

References
  • van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “lijnden”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
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