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In Belgium, any surnames beginning with "Van" or "van" are filed under "V". So for example Eric Van Rompuy is listed under the "V" section, not under the "R". [ 6 ] The lowercase spelling in a name from the Netherlands is respected but not necessarily differentiated in alphabetical ordering and its Dutch style capitalisation for certain usages ...
Byl, van der – archaic spelling, Afrikaans, or Americanization of "van der Bijl" Coevorden, van – e.g. George Vancouver#Origins of the family name; Citroen – lemon, e.g. André Citroën; Cornelissen – son of Cornelius; Dekker – from the verb dekken or to cover as in covering roof tops (compare "Thatcher") Dijk, Deijck, van – From ...
The German dictionary Duden recommends capitalizing the prefix von at the beginning of the sentence, but not in its abbreviated form, in order to avoid confusion with an abbreviated first name. However the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung style guide recommends omitting the von completely at the beginning of the sentence. [3]
von – "of", "from"; often a sign of nobility, but also just a geographical term of the name originated of a location. zu - ( German ) "at"; a sign of nobility, sometimes in the combination von und zu , meaning the noble family still owns the place of naming
Henry van de Velde (1863–1957), Belgian painter, architect and theorist; Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611–1693), Dutch painter; Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707), Dutch painter; Petrus Van der Velden (1837–1913), Dutch/New Zealand artist; Alexey Venetsianov (1780–1847), Russian painter; Adriaen van de Venne (1589–1662 ...
The particles tot and thoe, historically meaning 'at' and related to German zu, are a strong indicator of nobility if combined with van in a surname, such as van Voorst tot Voorst (the prepositions tot and thoe were once used to denote the place of residence of a lord, whereas van referred to the domain whence he derived his title). Note that ...
In Flanders, tussenvoegsels of personal names always keep their original orthography: "mevrouw Van der Velde", "Van der Velde, A.", and "Van den Broeke, Jan". In the Netherlands the first letter of the tussenvoegsel is written with lower case in the above four exceptional cases, whereas in Flanders it is written according to the entry for the ...
Colloquially, surname variants for women continue to appear in some German dialects. In Bavarian dialect surnames of women sometimes are formed by adding the ending "-in", used in standard High German to indicate noun variants for women or items of grammatical feminine gender, such as Näherin (seamstress), with Näher (seamster) being the male ...
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