Talk:Dykstra
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Meaning of "Stra"
[edit]Can anyone verify that "-stra" refers to straat? Fries is a funny language and it is not the same as Dutch, so the meaning may be different.Gaviidae 13:37, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
No it refers to the old-germanic word for place, seter, still found in Norwegian meaning farmplace. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.147.141.130 (talk) 21:05, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Was old spelling Dÿkstra?
[edit]I knew someone in Australia with the surname Dijkstra, and he thought that the original spelling was Dÿkstra - so that both Dijkstra and Dykstra were derivations mapped to the standard English alphabet (or that written cursive that ÿ and ij look the same?).
I don't have a definitive source, but in the example at https://www.openarchieven.nl/frl:e7a3c590-5abc-e46c-383a-9f02cfa177d6 it can be seen that Dÿkstra has been transcribed as Dijkstra MrTAP (talk) 11:01, 6 March 2025 (UTC)