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sanus per aquam
I doubt it. It sounds like folk etymology to me. The dictionaries I looked at give the Belgian placename as the origin. Note the earliest spelling spaw(e) in 17th century citations. Maybe it was from sanus per aquam, id est water.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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