English
Updike
Updike comes from Dutch dijk ‘upon the dyke’.
- Dutchc. 1500–presentdijk‘upon the dyke’
- Dutch, derivedc. 1500–presentOpdijk
- Englishearliest quotation 2017Updike
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Dutchc. 1500–presentdijk‘upon the dyke’
- Dutch, derivedc. 1500–presentOpdijk
- Englishearliest quotation 2017Updike
Earliest quotation: 2017, Hadley Freeman: “Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own,…”
Every English word from Dutch dijk
Today it means
name A surname from Dutch.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Dutch dijk / Updike