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Origin of Edam

Literally "the dam on the river Ye," and the river name literally means "river;" see ea.

From Wiktionary
After Edam , a town in the western Netherlands

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Edam took its name and origin from the dam built on the little river Ye which joined the great Purmer lake close by.
In the next century Edam was a great shipbuilding centre, and nearly the whole of Admiral de Ruyter's fleet was built here; but in the same century the harbour began to get blocked up, and the importance and industrial activity of the city slowly waned.
The security of the Zuider Zee for trade and fishing purposes was the first factor in the commercial development of North Holland, and the cities of Medemblik, Enkhuizen, Hoorn, Edam and Monnikendam, though now little more than market centres for the surrounding district, possessed a large foreign commerce in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Thus the dam on the Amstel (1257) was the origin of Amsterdam,' and the dam on the Ye gave rise to Edam.
Vollendam has its origin in the building of the great sea-dam for the new waterway to Edam in the middle of the 14th century.

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