Hemdijk

Dutch

Etymology

First attested as op hendijck [read: hemdijck] in 1452. Compound of either West Frisian hem (“inland polder”) or ham (“alluvial land in the bend of a river”) and dijk (“levee”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɦɛm.dɛi̯k/
Hyphenation: Hem‧dijk

Proper noun

Hemdijk n

A neighbourhood of Súdwest-Fryslân, Friesland, Netherlands

References

van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “hemdijk”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎^[1] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN