gouw

Meaning

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

district

province

area

region

Synonyms

arrondissement

district

gewest

provincie

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɣɑu̯/

Etymology

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.