Gand

Signification (Anglais)

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

Synonymes

Gent

Traductions

Ghent

Gent

Gante

Gent

Gand

Γάνδη

Gante

Gent

Gandavum

Gant

Gant

جينت

Gent

Ghent

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɡɑ̃/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.