Griend

Dutch

Etymology

• (island) From griend (“waterside area overgrown with willows”).
• (neighbourhood) Derived from griend (“land next to water used to cultivate brushwood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣrint/

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• Hyphenation: Griend
• Rhymes: -int
• Homophone: griend

Proper noun

Griend n

1. An uninhabited sand flat in the Wadden Sea, Netherlands; once a larger island that was deserted in the eighteenth century.
2. A neighbourhood of Lelystad, Flevoland, Netherlands.