Gand

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See also: gand and gând

Alemannic German

Etymology

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

Noun

Gand f

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

References

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

^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

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

IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: Gand
Rhymes: -ɑ̃

Proper noun

Gand m

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

Derived terms

gantois m
gantoise f

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Gand

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

From French Gand.

Proper noun

Gand ?

Ghent (the capital and largest city of East Flanders, Belgium)
Synonym: (archaic) Guanto

Old Irish

Proper noun

Gand m

the Ganges (a river in India)

[1] Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

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