GUISA (Old Ger.),
to gush, found in river names; e.g. Buachgieso (the bending stream); Goldgieso (golden stream); Wisgoz (the white stream).
GUNGE (Sansc.),
a market-town; e.g. Saibgunge (the market-town of the Englishmen); Futtegunge (the town of victory); Sultangunge (of the Sultan); Shevagunge (of Siva); Jaffiergunge (of Jaffier).
GUT, GOED (Ger.),
a property; e.g. Schlossgut (the property of the castle); Wüstegut (the property in the waste land); but this word, used as a prefix, denotes good, as in Guttenberg, Guttenbrun, Guttenstein (the good hill, well, and fortress).
GWEN (Cym.-Cel.),
fair, white, cognate with the Gadhelic fionn; e.g. Gwenap (the fair slope); Gwendur and Derwent (the fair water); Berwyn (the fair boundary); Corwen (the fair choir); Ventnor (the fair shore); Guinty or Guindy (the fair or white dwelling), common in Wales. Gwent, Latinised Venta, meant a fair open plain, and was applied to the counties of Monmouth, Gloucester, and Hereford, and Hampshire, as well as to the coast of Brittany: thus Winchester was formerly Caer-gwent (the fortress of the fair plain), Latinised Venta-Belgorum (the plain of the Belgians). There was a gwent also in Norfolk, Latinised Venta-Icenorum (the plain of the Iceni). This root-word may be the derivation of Vannes and La Vendée, in Normandy, if not from the Veneti—v. FEN.
GWENT (Welsh),
a fair or open region, a campaign. It is a name now confined to nearly all Monmouthshire, but which anciently comprehended also parts of the counties of Gloucester and Hereford, being a district where Caer-went or the Venta-Silurum of the Romans was the capital; Corwen (the blessed choir or church); Yr Eglwys-Wen (the blessed choir or church); Wenvoe, in Glamorgan, corrupt. from Gwenvai (the happy land).