gouw

Oznaczający (Angielski)

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

Synonimy

arrondissement

district

gewest

provincie

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/ɣɑu̯/

Etymologia (Angielski)

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.