Dijk

(Engels)

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

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dɛi̯k/

Etimologie (Engels)

* (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.