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Rijk.

a former village in Noord-Holland, the Netherlands, demolished in 1959, located at what is now one of the runways of Schiphol

4 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

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name/rɛi̯k/
  1. a former village in Noord-Holland, the Netherlands, demolished in 1959, located at what is now one of the runways of Schiphol

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  2. a drowned village in Noord-Holland, the Netherlands, destroyed by the Haarlemmermeer in the seventeenth century

    neuter
Where this word comes from

The village that existed in the 19th and 20th centuries was named after the older drowned village that had existed near the location.

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