Kerkrade

First attested as ad ecclesiam in predio quod est Rode in 1108. Compound of kerk (“church”) and rode (“land cleared of trees”) (from Middle Dutch rods, ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *ruddjan (“to clear”)).

See also Central Franconian Kirchroa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛrkˌraː.də/

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• Hyphenation: Kerk‧ra‧de
• Rhymes: -ɛrkraːdə

Kerkrade n

1. A city and municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.

   Meronyms: Eygelshoven, Ham

• Kerkradenaar
• Kerkraads

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

• Kirchrath (still often in the border region, otherwise archaic)

Borrowed from Dutch Kerkrade. The alternative second-syllable stress is by analogy with German placenames in -rade, -rode, which are often (though not always) stressed on the suffix.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛrkˌraːdə/, /kɛrkˈraːdə/, [kɛʁk-], [kɛɐ̯k-], [-ʁaːdə]

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Kerkrade n (proper noun, genitive Kerkrades or (optionally with an article) Kerkrade)

1. Kerkrade (a city in the Netherlands, on the German border)