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Gand

/ɡɑ̃/

proper noun/ɡɑ̃/

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

Related: gantois, gantoise

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.