Griend
Dutch
editEtymology
edit- (island) From griend (“waterside area overgrown with willows”).
- (neighbourhood) Derived from griend (“land next to water used to cultivate brushwood”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editGriend n
- An uninhabited sand flat in the Wadden Sea, Netherlands; once a larger island that was deserted in the eighteenth century.
- A neighbourhood of Lelystad, Flevoland, Netherlands.