The story
- Afrikaans · derived fromgoud
- Sotho · borrowed fromiGauteng“place of gold”
- English todayGauteng
From Sotho iGauteng (“place of gold”), from gauda or gauta (“gold”, from Afrikaans goud, cognate with English gold) + teng (“here, there; inside”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.