Griend

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Etymology

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  • (island) From griend (waterside area overgrown with willows).
  • (neighbourhood) Derived from griend (land next to water used to cultivate brushwood).

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Proper noun

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Griend n

  1. an uninhabited sand flat in the Wadden Sea, Netherlands; once a larger island that was deserted in the eighteenth century
  2. A neighbourhood of Lelystad, Flevoland, Netherlands