Amer

 

 

Likely etymologically identical to Eem. See also Amersfoort. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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Amer ?

1. A hydronym; particularly:
   1. A river in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands; it flows into the Hollands Diep and is the continuation of the Bergsche Maas

• The placenames Amersfoort, Amerongen and others in the province of Utrecht do not refer to the Brabantian river, but are probably derived from a by-form Amer of the hydronym Eem which does not survive in contemporary Dutch.

•   Amer on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• IPA^(key): /âmer/
• Hyphenation: A‧mer

Ȁmer m (Cyrillic spelling А̏мер)

1. (colloquial) American