Etymology

Amsterdam

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Today it means: A city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; the capital city of the Netherlands. Full definition →

Dutch Amsterdam ← Middle Dutch Aemstelredam
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The story

  1. Middle DutchAemstelredam
  2. DutchAmsterdam
  3. English todayAmsterdam

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.