Multilingual Palindrome Squares

Three Dutch 5×5 palindromic word squares, similar to the original Sator Square.
The words can be read across, down, and backwards while preserving the square's symmetry.
Some squares include one proper noun or invented name, like Arepo in the original Sator Square,
but only when it allows for a relatively strong grammatical reading.
When all five words are real words, somewhat looser grammar is allowed.

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Dutch Palindrome Squares

One proper noun or invented Arepo-style word allowed

Imaginative reading: Shipowner Treda neatly decorates go-karts with a veined pattern

Possibly an original square; no prior online occurrence found

  • Karts: Go-karts
    • Plural of kart, “go-kart”
    • Source
  • Adert: Decorates with a veined pattern
    • Third-person singular present of aderen, “to provide with veins/a veined pattern”
    • Source
  • Reder: Shipowner
  • Treda: Invented name
  • Strak: Neatly/precisely; also stiffly/tightly/tautly; used adverbially
    • Uninflected adjective used adverbially
    • Source

No proper nouns

Imaginative reading: Danish pasturing: [he] etched, moistened, and cut

Source

  • Deens: Danish
  • Etten: To pasture
  • Etste: Etched
    • Singular simple past of etsen, “to etch”
    • Source
  • Nette: Moistened; neat/tidy
    • Singular simple past of netten, in its older sense “to moisten, make wet”
    • Source
  • Sneed: Cut
    • Singular simple past of snijden, “to cut”
    • Source

One proper noun or invented Arepo-style word allowed

Imaginative reading: Shipowner Tleda stiffly ennobles go-karts

Possibly an original square; no prior online occurrence found

  • Karts: Go-karts
  • Adelt: Ennobles
    • Third-person singular present of adelen, “to ennoble”
    • Source
  • Reder: Shipowner
  • Tleda: Invented name
  • Strak: Stiffly/tightly/tautly; also neatly/precisely; used adverbially