Niel

1. (town): Borrowed from Dutch Niel.
2. (surname): Borrowed from French Niel.

• enPR: nēl, IPA^(key): /niːl/

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• Rhymes: -iːl
• Homophones: Kneel, Neal, Neil

Niel

1. A town on the river Rupel in the southwest of the Belgian province of Antwerp.
2. A surname from French.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Niel”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 668.
• Forebears

• LEIN, LINE, Line, Neil, Nile, lien, line

• Possibly from the medieval word niel meaning "thrown face-down in the depths", from the Germanic nihwulia or niwaialho (meaning: "headlong, downward"). Furthermore, places with "Niel" in their names have been shown to invariably be lower-lying

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• IPA^(key): [nil]

Niel ?

1. town on the river Rupel in the southwest of the Belgian province of Antwerp

In France, most prevalent in Seine-Maritime.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /njɛl/
• Homophone: nielle

Niel m or f

1. a French surname, Niel

• Forebears (French)
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• IPA^(key): [ni̯el]

Niel

1. genitive plural of Nela