Stolwijk
Dutch
Alternative forms
- Stolk (dialect form)
Etymology
First attested as stolwyc and stulwyc in 1330. Presumably a compound of Middle Dutch stolle (“lump, chunk”) and wyc (“farmstead, village, settlement”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Stol‧wijk
Proper noun
Stolwijk n
- A village and former municipality of Krimpenerwaard, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
Derived terms
- Stolwijker
- Stolwijks
- Stolwijkersluis
References
- van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “stolwijk”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN