De Banken

Dutch

Etymology

Attested as BANKEN- (DE) in 1851. Derived from bank (“farmland reclaimed from a peat bog divided along parallel lines”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: De Ban‧ken

Proper noun

De Banken n

1. A hamlet in Uithoorn, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

References

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