Griend
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Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- (island) From griend (“waterside area overgrown with willows”).
- (neighbourhood) Derived from griend (“land next to water used to cultivate brushwood”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Griend n
- an uninhabited sand flat in the Wadden Sea, Netherlands; once a larger island that was deserted in the eighteenth century
- A neighbourhood of Lelystad, Flevoland, Netherlands