Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quelpaert

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: quel-paert
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Jeju, an island of South Korea.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"A Dutch Vessel, in the year 1653, being bound from Batavia to Japan, after suffering a most violent Storm of several days continuance, springing a Leak so wide that there was no means to drain the Water that rush’d into the Hold, several that happen’d to be then under Deck were drowned before they could get up, and each Man betaking himself to his shifts, 36 (of 64 that they were in all) got ashore upon the Island of Quelpaert, and those too severely bruised and hurt in saving themselves from the terrible Fate of their more unfortunate Companions."
"At night they gave us more rice to eat ; and our master, having made an observation, found we were in the island of Quelpaert, which is thirty-three degrees thirty-two minutes of latitude."

Etymology

A name applied by Dutch sailor Hendrick Hamel and used in Europe.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

Quelparte (alternative) Quelpart (alternative)

Questions

What does quelpaert mean?: Jeju, an island of South Korea.
Where does quelpaert come from?: A name applied by Dutch sailor Hendrick Hamel and used in Europe.

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