411 REFERENCE · Wiktionary
Gand
Reference material by Wiktionary contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
gand gând
Alemannic German
Etymology
gsw qfa-sub
Borrowed from und ganda, of an unknown gsw roa language, probably from gsw qsb-ibe - origin (possibly gsw xib -). See also gl gándara.
Noun
gsw noun f
gsw Uri scree loose stony debris on a slope
References
gsw Landforms Geology
French
Etymology
There seems to be 2 hypothesis both concerning water.
1) Gand comes the name of a Gallo-Roman vicus called Ganda, a Celtic word that meant confluant.
2) Gand comes from the Celtic word that had a relation with water, Gond.
That name Gond was transformed by the Frankish to Gand.
Pronunciation
fr Fr-Gand.ogg
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-Gand.wav <<France>> (<<Somain>>)
fr Gand
fr ɑ̃ 1
Proper noun
m
fr caplc p/East Flanders c/Belgium Ghent
Derived terms
fr gantois m
fr gantoise f
Italian
it:
Etymology
From French Gand.
Proper noun
it caplc p/East Flanders c/Belgium Ghent
it Guanto<q:archaic>
Old Irish
Proper noun
sga proper noun m
sga river c/India the Ganges