Gams, Gams(Berg)
We treated this place and name in th a * 360-1. The meaning was also associated with 'grass', in Nama ǀ Ga, in Kora ǀ gam. Early three records were added from early country maps. It seems as if the tribal was still very long and that it was later contracted in the game form of 'gam' AMS, in his spelling tha-ams. Then we have to expand our previous statement slightly. The member -am- = mouth, by transfer also fountain / source. GAMS, actually ǀ GA-AMS (with the lock-to the VR. Ekv. Also, the indication of this is a name for a water opening / fountain) should then be translated literally as 'Grasmond / Grasfontein'. The 'grass' (of which Thompson 1824 says, it 'Grows All in Separate Tufts, Like The Hair on the Head of a Hottentot'), will be the Aristida Brevifolia. It is clear accordingly that the mountain has its name of the Grasfontein. Topo Cadastral Series 1966 Skin 2918 NAMES Give a farm 'GAMS' NAM. Q. 10-5 on, and to its south border a 'Gamsberg' with land surveyor No. 23 on it, the latter name again with a long tribal (according to the spelling). At the corresponding topographical series 1976, the name of the said farm and the mountain is spelled 'Gam'. 'Grass Mouth / Fountain'.