Dniedouw, Dinedow, Dieniedouw
The possession card (or cadastral card) gives the spelling as it is registered in the Akteskante, viz. As 'Dine Dow', but it also does the survey office that the division card has set up. They spell it 'Dniedouw'. The 'Dnie' of the one can ntiskien be a faulty statement of the -ni- for the -in- of the other. Whatever, the later maps such as the topographical of 1973, the DNE / Dine now 'normalized' to a woman name as a service. The second member also undergoes changes. The oldest is 'Douw', and it is the form that dominates to this day, but the possession card 1969 also knows a Dow. It looks like the game form 'Dow' can be a willful adjustment to the family name, or (with others WORDS) The member is actually just like the many other -dou (W) is coming from Khoekhens, and means 'port / gorge / road' (Nama: DAO). Dieniedouwkloof is therefore literally understanding as a Cloof. For us, it seems as if 'Dniedouw / Dine do (U) W' is an ordinary Khoekhozen name, that the Dine was 'people nettimologically' the idea of a European Word name, and that in connection it was further endowed By also connecting the closing member, the -douw, to the family name Dow. If just (and it should be placed on the concentration of old Khoekhoen local names here just north and just south of the Baviaanskloofberge), then the question is the member 'Dnie / Dine' - then means. We are here in the world of honey, a world given to the Outeniqua ('hedge case carriers'). In fact, the place names themselves are reminiscent of the sweet environment: in the same grade square on AA 'Honeyville', on BA 'honeyhead', north-east of our DineDouw or northwest of Steytlerville (3324 AB) is 'Honeylip River' that flows through the farm that On the 1890 section card still occurs as 'Honig Klip Or Camphers port'. The earliest recording of the word for honey in Old Cape is Dini, so at Rhyne 1673, at Sparrman 1775-6 for the eastern dialects, it is Denni (cf. Hott 301). 'Honey gap' will then be the translation of DineDouw, sound association .