Berendrecht is a village in
Antwerp province in
Belgium. Its name means "
dike of the
bear", according to the area's dialect, or "dike of a man called Bear", or "passage by the marsh". But drecht or tricht means "ferry" or "crossing" (from
Latin trajectus), and ber or bere in
Indo-European means "
dam", "defence against water" (compare History of Berlin#Slavic East Germany): the resulting meaning is "river crossing at a dam".
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