Dievoort

[1] It should not be confused with the locality Diervoort,[2] on the border of the municipalities of Nijmegen and Wijchen, where there is a Diervoortseweg (Diervoort Road), which is a place currently composed only of a large cheese farm, and not a "cluster of houses" anymore as during the fighting that took place there in 1944 and that no monument indicates.

The place name Dievoort, found in the region of Breda (Dietvoort or Dievoort) is composed of the two words Diet, which means "people" (see Middle High German diet "people" proto-Germanic * þeudā, where adjective deutsch / duits, equivalent to the old Irish tūath, proto-Celtic * teutā meaning also "people" or "tribe"[3] and the word voorde which means "ford" (voorde in Dutch, like Furt in German and ford in English of protogermanic * furdu[4] equivalent of proto-Celtic * φritu- Latinized in ritum, old Welsh laughs, modern rhyd and protofrançais roy, king / ray, rai (still in place names), equivalents of Latin portus.This place name thus means the "public ford" is an important ford, managed by the tribe or the people and often defended by a fort or a castle.

[5] There are other places of this name such as that of Duivenvoorde, Dievoert, Dievoet, which would come from the Celtic Divoritum and would mean a "sacred ford", divoritum, or a ford dedicated to the god Týr (Tiwaz), (Zeus), or to a goddess (dia) waters.

[6] In Celtic mythology, the ford was of great importance as a place of passage or limit, a particular goddess Ritona was dedicated to him.

Moreover, many bronze objects such as axes, spear points, were thrown intact as an offering to the deities of the living waters, mainly in privileged places such as crossings.