Etymology

woonerf

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Today it means: A street in which pedestrians and cyclists have priority over motorists. Full definition →

Dutch woonerf
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The story

  1. Dutch · borrowed fromwoonerf“living street”
  2. English todaywoonerf

Borrowed from Dutch woonerf (“living street”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.