Nieuwendam
Dutch
editEtymology
editFirst 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
editNieuwendam 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