Feminine
gouw
- (archaic, feminine, historical) shire, geographical and/or administrative region
- (Middle-Ages, archaic, feminine, historical) shire, geographical and/or administrative region
- (Nazism, archaic, feminine, historical) shire, geographical and/or administrative region
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɣɑu̯/
Etymology
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.
Amtsbezirk
distretto
arrondissement de commune
arrondiment districte dzielnica
obszar
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