Bijlmermeer
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom Bijlmer (“a former village”) + meer (“lake”). The toponym Bijlmer derives from a contraction of Old Dutch bindel (“connection, link”) and mere (“lake”). The meaning of the toponym was gradually forgotten, and the element meer was appended as a result.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editBijlmermeer n
- Bijlmermeer (a neighborhood and former municipality of Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Sranan Tongo: Bimre
References
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- Dutch compound terms
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- Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/eːr
- Rhymes:Dutch/eːr/3 syllables
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
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- nl:Neighbourhoods in North Holland, Netherlands
- nl:Historical political subdivisions
- nl:Places in North Holland, Netherlands
- nl:Places in the Netherlands