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voordeden

Voordeden is a Dutch term that occurs in historical and toponymic contexts. In standard Dutch, a ford is called a voorde; the plural of voorde is usually voorden. The form voordeden is not part of everyday modern vocabulary but appears in older texts and in the etymology of some place names, where it can function as the plural or as a historical spelling variant.

Geographically and historically, terms built from voorde frequently appear in the Low Countries to denote crossing

Because voordeden is not a current common noun, references to it in contemporary usage are mainly scholarly

See also: Voorde, Ford, Toponymy.

points
on
rivers.
Some
villages,
districts
or
features
in
former
maps
may
carry
a
variant
of
the
word
as
part
of
a
compound
name,
reflecting
the
ford’s
existence
at
that
location.
or
archival.
The
concept
remains
significant
for
the
study
of
historical
geography
and
linguistic
history
of
Dutch
toponymy.