gouw

Signification (English)

1. (Middle-Ages, archaic, feminine, historical) shire, geographical and/or administrative region
2. (Nazism, archaic, feminine, historical) shire, geographical and/or administrative region
3. (archaic, feminine, historical) shire, geographical and/or administrative region

Concepts

arrondissement

province

district

circonscription administrative

arrondisement

canton

arrondissement de commune

circonscription

Synonyms

arrondissement

district

gewest

provincie

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɣɑu̯/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen néerlandais: gou

Inherited from Old Dutch: gō

Cognate with frison occidental: gea

Cognate with allemand: Gau

In summary

From Middle Dutch gou, gau, gō (genitive gooy), from Old Dutch gō, from Proto-West Germanic *gawi, from Proto-Germanic *gawją, a collective form equivalent to ge- (“a prefix that indicates a single collective whole”) + ouwe (“land near water or drenched with water”). Cognate of West Frisian gea, goa, German Gau.