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Nijvelaar.

a hamlet in Sint-Michielsgestel, North Brabant, Netherlands

9 characters3 syllables approx.Nederlands language

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name/ˈnɛi̯.vəˌlaːr/
  1. a hamlet in Sint-Michielsgestel, North Brabant, Netherlands

    neuter
Where this word comes from

First attested as ijvelaer in 1472. Compound of dialectal ijf (“yew, Taxus sp.”) and laar (“intensively cultivated forest”). The initial n developed as a result of an inflected form of the definite article de being contracted into the toponym.

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