sentences:  The village's name combines the common placename ending "—weiler", meaning “hamlet” or, originally, “homestead”, with the personal name “Gundlîn”, and thus the name Ginsweiler originally meant “Gundlîn’s Homestead”.The "—weiler" ending also suggests a founding in early Frankish times.Actual abandoned villages in the area of Ginsweiler's limits are unknown.