Editing Maastricht (section)

=== Toponymy ===
Maastricht is mentioned in ancient documents as ''[Ad] Treiectinsem [urbem]'' ab. 575, ''Treiectensis'' in 634, ''Triecto'', ''Triectu'' in 7th century, ''Triiect'' in 768–781, ''Traiecto'' in 945, ''Masetrieth'' in 1051.<ref>As ''Treiectinsem urbem'', "the city of Trajectum", in [[Gregory of Tours]], [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/gregorytours/gregorytours2.shtml ''Historia Francorum'', 2, 5] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316175253/http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/gregorytours/gregorytours2.shtml |date=16 March 2015 }} (late 6th ct.).</ref><ref>M. Gysseling, ''Toponymisch Woordenboek van België, Nederland, Luxemburg, Noord-Frankrijk en West-Duitsland (vóór 1226)'' (Tongeren, 1960) [http://bouwstoffen.kantl.be/tw/facsimile/?find=maastricht p. 646].</ref>

The place name ''Maastricht'' is an [[Old Dutch]] compound ''Masa-'' (> ''Maas'' "the [[Meuse]] river") + Old Dutch ''*treiekt'', itself borrowed from Gallo-Romance <small>*TRA(I)ECTU</small> cf. its Walloon name ''li trek'', from Classical Latin ''trajectus'' ("[[Ford (crossing)|ford]], passage, place to cross a river") with the later addition of ''Maas'' "Meuse" to avoid the confusion with the ''-trecht'' of [[Utrecht]] having exactly the same original form and etymology. The Latin name first appears in medieval documents and it is not known whether ''{{lang|la|*Trajectu(s)}}'' was Maastricht's name during Roman times.

A resident of Maastricht is referred to as ''Maastrichtenaar'' while in the local dialect it is either ''Mestreechteneer'' or, colloquially, ''[[Sjeng (name)|Sjeng]]'' (derived from the formerly popular French name ''Jean'').