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Dijk.

a hamlet in Peel en Maas, Limburg, Netherlands

4 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

name/dɛi̯k/
  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

Where this word comes from

* (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.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.