Nieuwendam
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Etymology
[edit]First attested in 1507. Compound of an inflected form of nieuw (“new”) and dam (“dam”). Formerly an independent village.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: Nieu‧wen‧dam
Proper noun
[edit]Nieuwendam n
- A neighbourhood and former municipality of Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
References
[edit]- van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “nieuwendam”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard[1] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]Nieuwendam on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl