Nieuwendam

Dutch

Een deel van Nieuwendam.

Etymology

First attested in 1507. Compound of an inflected form of nieuw (“new”) and dam (“dam”). Formerly an independent village.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Nieu‧wen‧dam

Proper noun

Nieuwendam n

1. A neighbourhood and former municipality of Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

References

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

Further reading

• Nieuwendam on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl