different between holland vs dutchland

English

Etymology

After Holland, where it originally came from. From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”).

Noun

holland (countable and uncountable, plural hollands)

1. (now historical) A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.
   • 1768, Joshua Reynolds, in John Ingamells, John Edgcumbe (eds.), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale 2000, p. 23:

     I am convinced that many if not all the Quality in France were shirts of the finest holand, for tho' I never saw of them strip I have seen what is an equivalent proof, I have seen on the Bulwarks of Paris above twenty entire shirts hanging to dry that the best Gentlemen in England might wear without disparagement.

Translations

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from Hollandia. Ultimately from Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hol??nd]
• Hyphenation: hol?land
• Rhymes: -?nd

Adjective

holland (not comparable)

1. Dutch (of or relating to the Netherlands, its people or language)

Declension

Noun

holland (countable and uncountable, plural hollandok)

1. Dutch (person)
2. Dutch (language)

Declension

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Further reading

• holland in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN