köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns Proto-Germanic *gans Proto-West Germanic *gans Old High German gans Middle High German gans German Gans From Middle High German gans, from Old High German gans, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns. Compare Low German Gans, Goos, Dutch gans, English goose, Danish gås.
köken: Inherited from Old French oie, from earlier oe, oue, from Vulgar Latin auca, contraction of *avica, from Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Italian, Spanish, and Catalan oca, Franco-Provençal ôye, Occitan and Romansh auca, Friulian ocje. The Trésor de la langue française argues that -i- was added by the end of the 12th century as analogy to oisel, oiseau (“bird”).
aile: jeu de l'oie, oie cendrée, oie des neiges, petite oie
köken: Inherited from Late Latin auca, syncope of *avica, from Classical Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Catalan, Spanish, Venetan, and Sicilian oca, French oie, Occitan auca, Romansh auca, ocha, Friulian ocje, Dalmatian jauca.
goose (a grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae)
çekim: çoğul gansos
eş: bebedeira, carraspana, pileque
köken: From Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌽𐍃 (*gans, “goose”), from Proto-Germanic *gans (“goose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns. Displaced Old Galician-Portuguese ansar, anssar.
köken: First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 거유〮 (Yale: kèywú). Perhaps related to Old Korean *巨老 (*kəru), attested in Samguk sagi toponyms. Possibly also related to Japanese 雁 (kari, “goose”) and Mongolian галуу (galuu, “goose”).
a goose · a lump of butter that floats on top of the cream during churning · butter flavoured with salt and given pleasing form, to be served as spread
çekim: çoğul gäss · tamlayan gåsens
köken: From Old Swedish gās, from Old Norse gás, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”). Cognate with English goose, German Gans, etc. In the other senses referring to the goose’s ability to float on water.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *hanhi (compare Estonian hani), borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źansís (compare Lithuanian žąsis). Compare Erzya шенже (šenže, “duck”), which was probably borrowed from the same Balto-Slavic source.