Proto-Germanic: *gawja-n, *gawjō, -ēn
Meaning: country, environment
Gothic: gawi n. (ja) `country, environment'; *gauja m. (n) `people of a country'
Old English: äl-gē `eel-country'
Old Frisian: gē
Old Saxon: -gō, -gā
Middle Dutch: gouw, gou, gau, gō, gooy
Dutch: gouw f.
Old Franconian: -gauua, -gō, -gōie (in ON)
Middle Low German: gō `Landschaft, Bezirk, bes. Gaugerichtssprtengel'
Old High German: gawi, gouwi (9.Jh.); gawa, gowa, gawia, gowia
Middle High German: göu, gou (-w-) st. n. 'gegend, landschaft, gau'
German: Gau m.
