Gand

Borrowed from ganda, of an unknown Romance language, probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia origin (possibly Iberian).^[1] See also Galician gándara.

Gand f

1. (Uri) scree (loose stony debris on a slope)

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.

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.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃/

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• Hyphenation: Gand
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

Gand m

1. Ghent (the capital and largest city of East Flanders, Belgium)

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Gand

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From French Gand.

Gand ?

1. Ghent (the capital and largest city of East Flanders, Belgium)

   Synonym: (archaic) Guanto

Gand m

1. the Ganges (a river in India)