Dijk

Dutch

Etymology

• (Limburg) Derived from dijk (“levee”).
• (Asten) First attested as Den Dijk in 1899. Derived from dijk (“levee”).
• (Meierijstad) First attested as Dijk in 1867. Derived from dijk (“levee”), here potentially used in a dialectal sense to refer to a raised road.

The surname derives from one of the senses of dijk or from one of several toponyms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛi̯k/

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• Hyphenation: Dijk
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯k
• Homophone: dijk

Proper noun

Dijk

1. a hamlet in Peel en Maas, Limburg, Netherlands
2. a hamlet in Asten, North Brabant, Netherlands
3. a hamlet in Meierijstad, North Brabant, Netherlands
4. a surname

References

• van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN