guante
/ˈɡwante/ · B1 · noun · m
baseball glove
🧤 guante sounds like gauntlet; both come from Frankish want, meaning glove
Germanic w- became gu- in Spanish, as in guerra (war) and guardar (to keep). So want turned into guante, and the French gant gave English gauntlet. Hearing gw-ANT-e brings gauntlet to mind, and a gauntlet is a glove.