• Halle – Old forms: circa 1050
Hala, 1107
Halle, 1139
Hallo. It comes from the
Germanic word halha, which means "bend in the highland". A series of hilltops are lined up from Velm to Halle-Bisjeshoven. Between the peaks with a height of 83.75 and 80 meters is an outcrop, after which Halle was named. • Booienhoven – Old forms: 1235
boedenhoeven, 1350
boedenhouen (read: -hoven), 1357
in bodenhouen (read: -hoven), etc. and with expulsion of d Boijenhouen in 1645. Booihoven, like Goetshoven and Gussenhoven, belongs to a younger layer of settlement names that originated between 600 and 700 AD. The type consists of a person's name in the
Romanesque genitive singular + curtem, meaning "court, farm" of the named person. Following this the type was created: personal name in the Germanic genitive singular + hofum, singular of hofa, which means "farm". We can thus reconstruct Booihoven as Germanic
*Budon hofum, meaning "Budo's farm". == Notes ==