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/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: Dijk
  • Rhymes: -ɛi̯k
  • Homophone: dijk

Proper noun

Dijk

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

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