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: From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (yipek), from Proto-Turkic *yïpak (“silk”), probably a derivation of Proto-Turkic *yip (“thread”). Cognate with Turkish ipek, Turkmen ýüpek, Uzbek ipak, Kazakh жібек (jıbek), Kyrgyz жибек (jibek).
köken: Inherited from Chagatai [Term?], from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. By surface analysis, ip (“thread”) + -ak (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Kazakh жібек (jıbek), Crimean Tatar yipek, Turkish ipek, etc.
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.
köken: From Old Danish gas, from Old Norse gás, from Proto-Germanic *gans, cognate with Swedish gås, English goose, German Gans, Dutch gans. The Germanic noun derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”), which is also the source of Latin ānser, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Lithuanian žąsi̇̀s, Sanskrit हंस (haṃsá).