Brakel.
a village and former municipality of Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Netherlands
Meaning & usage
a village and former municipality of Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Netherlands
a hamlet in Goirle, North Brabant, Netherlands
Where this word comes from
* (Gelderland) First attested as brakel in 1212. Compound of Proto-Germanic *brakô- (“twig, branch, undergrowth”) and lo (“light forest”). * (Noord-Brabant) First attested as ten breekelen in 1422. Presumably derived from a suffixed form of braak (“intensively ploughed land, heath converted to farmland”). Compare the toponym in Gelderland.
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