Stolwijk

Dutch

Alternative forms

Stolk (dialect form)

Etymology

First attested as stolwyc and stulwyc in 1330. Presumably a compound of Middle Dutch stolle (“lump, chunk”) and wyc (“farmstead, village, settlement”).

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: Stol‧wijk

Proper noun

Stolwijk n

A village and former municipality of Krimpenerwaard, South Holland, Netherlands

Derived terms

References

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