Stolwijk

Dutch

Alternative forms

• Stolk (dialect form)

Etymology

First attested as stolwyc and stulwyc in 1330. Presumably a compound of Middle Dutch stolle (“lump, chunk”) and wyc (“farmstead, village, settlement”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Stol‧wijk

Proper noun

Stolwijk n

1. A village and former municipality of Krimpenerwaard, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

Derived terms

• Stolwijker
• Stolwijks
• Stolwijkersluis

References

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