Dünkirchen

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Dutch Duinkerke or its Middle Dutch predecessor. Analysable as Düne (“dune”) + -kirchen (“-church”). The component -kirchen is a loan translation; the component Dün- may be as well, but it may merely represent the Middle Dutch and still dialectal pronunciation of Dutch -ui- as /yː/.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌdyːnˈkɪʁ.çən/

Proper noun

Dünkirchen n (genitive Dünkirchens)

  1. Dunkirk (Dunkerque), a coastal town in northern France, originally Flemish-speaking.
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