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Dijk
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Dutch
Etymology
(Limburg) Derived from nl dijk levee.
(Asten) First attested as Den Dijk in 1899. Derived from nl dijk levee.
(Meierijstad) First attested as Dijk in 1867. Derived from nl dijk levee, here potentially used in a dialectal sense to refer to a raised road.
The surname derives from one of the senses of nl dijk or from one of several toponyms.
Pronunciation
nl /dɛi̯k/
nl Nl-Dijk.ogg
nl Dijk
nl ɛi̯k
nl dijk
Proper noun
nl proper noun
nl hamlet mun/Peel en Maas p/Limburg c/Netherlands
nl hamlet mun/Asten p/North Brabant c/Netherlands
nl hamlet mun/Meierijstad p/North Brabant c/Netherlands
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