Honswijk

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch honswijc, from Old Dutch hundeswīc (first attested as hundeswiic around 1200), a compound of *Hund (a personal name) and *wīc (“farmstead, village, settlement”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Hons‧wijk

Proper noun

Honswijk n

  1. a hamlet in Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands

References

  • van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “honswijk”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎[1] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
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