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Amer

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See also: amer, âmèr, amer., and Amer.

Dutch

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De locatie van de Amer.
De Amer op een mooie dag.

Etymology

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Likely etymologically identical to Eem. See also Amersfoort. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Amer ?

  1. A hydronym; particularly:
    1. A river in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands; it flows into the Hollands Diep and is the continuation of the Bergsche Maas

Usage notes

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  • The placenames Amersfoort, Amerongen and others in the province of Utrecht do not refer to the Brabantian river, but are probably derived from a by-form Amer of the hydronym Eem which does not survive in contemporary Dutch.

Further reading

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Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /âmer/
  • Hyphenation: A‧mer

Proper noun

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Ȁmer m (Cyrillic spelling А̏мер)

  1. (colloquial) American