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, North Holland, Netherlands

References

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