Podil oikonyms Holendra, Holendry and Holinderna in the system of related toponyms of Ukraine and other Slavic regions

Sviatoslav Verbych, Doctor of Philology, Senior Researcher, Leading Researcher in the Department of History of the Ukrainian Language and Onomastics
Institute of Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
4 Mykhaіlo Hrushevskyi St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine

E-mail: sviatoverb@ukr.net
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4671-1898

Heading: Articles
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The article is devoted to the historical and etymological analysis of the oikonyms Holendra and Holendra within the modern Ternopil and Vinnytsia regions, as well as the names of the former villages Olendra Strusivski in Ternopil region and Holinderna (Holendernya) in Vinnytsia region. The above names are characterized among numerous counterparts in other regions of Ukraine, in particular in Volyn, as well as in Belarus and Poland. The oikonyms Holendry, Olendry (Strusivski) (‹ Holendry with the loss of the initial G– in the Polish-speaking environment) are formally related to the phonetically adapted Polish holendry ‛colony (Dutch)’ ‹ holender (holander, olander, olender, olęder) ‛settler from Holland’, as indicated by the lexemes holender ‛hollandets’, holenderskiy ‛hollandskiy’ recorded in the Ukrainian dictionary, which, however, does not provide unambiguous grounds to link them directly with Dutch immigrants. The late chronology (19th century) of most of these names rather indicates the establishment of these settlements on the model of colonies under Dutch law. The interpretation of the Ukrainian oikonyms Holendra as so-called generic (family) names motivated by the anthroponym Holender is unfounded, given that neither in Ukraine nor in Poland, where the greatest number of such names are attested, is there a single possessive oikonym like Holender (-ova, –ové), Holenderów.

Keywords: etnonymic toponyms, Dutch settlement (colony), ethnonym, oikonym, Podolsk region.

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Received 29.07.2026  Аpproved 14.09.2026  Рublished 02.11.2026