Spoelwijk

Dutch

Etymology

First attested as spoelwyck in 1360 and 1361. Potentially a compound of Middle Dutch spoel (“rinsing water”) and wyc (“farmstead, village, settlement”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Spoel‧wijk

Proper noun

Spoelwijk n

  1. a hamlet in Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland, Netherlands

References

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