*gans

Runic: ᚷᚨᚾᛊ Pronunciation: /ˈɣɑns/

noun · feminine · consonant stem

Meanings

goose

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (‘goose’). Compare Albanian gatë, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn) (khḗn), Avestan 𐬰𐬁 (zā) (zā), Irish gé, Latin ānser, Latvian zùoss, Russian гусь (gusʹ), and Sanskrit हंस (haṃsá) (haṃsá). Proto-Slavic *gǫ̑sь, however, does not exhibit the regular satem development as Baltic does and is therefore better explained as a Germanic loan, or at least influenced by the Germanic cognate.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	gans	gansiz
Acc.	gansų	gansunz
Gen.	gansiz	gansǫ̂
Dat.	gansi	gansumaz
Inst.	gansē	gansumiz
Voc.	gans	gansiz

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Descendants

*gans (Proto-West Germanic)
- *gans, *guos (Old Dutch)
  - gans, goes (Middle Dutch)
    - gans, goes (Dutch)
      - hans (Caribbean Hindustani)
      - xânz (Jersey Dutch)
      - kansa (Lokono)
      - gans (Negerhollands)
      - gans (Papiamentu)
*gans (Proto-West Germanic)
- *gans, *guos (Old Dutch)
  - gans, goes (Middle Dutch)
    - gans, goes (Dutch)
      - gans (Afrikaans)
        
        urhanisi (Xhosa)
        
        ihansi (Zulu)
*gans (Proto-West Germanic)
- *gans, *guos (Old Dutch)
  - gans, goes (Middle Dutch)
    - gans, goes (Dutch)
      - gansi (Sranan Tongo)
        
        gansi (Aukan)
        
        gánsi (Saramaccan)
*gans (Proto-West Germanic)
- gōs (Old English)
  - gos, goce, goos, gose, gosse (Middle English)
    - goose (English)
    - guise (Scots)
*gans (Proto-West Germanic)
- *gōs (Old Frisian)
  - ? (North Frisian)
  - Gous (Saterland Frisian)
  - goes (West Frisian)
*gans (Proto-West Germanic)
- gans, cans (Old High German)
  - gans, gas (Middle High German)
    - Gaas, Gants (Alemannic German)
    - Gans (German)
    - Gäns, Gaus (Luxembourgish)
    - gaons (Vilamovian)
    - גאַנדז (gandz) (Yiddish)
*gans (Proto-West Germanic)
- *gās, *gōs (Old Saxon)
  - gās, gōs, gūs (Middle Low German)
    - Gans, Goos (Low German)
*gans (Proto-West Germanic)
- *gās, *gōs (Old Saxon)
  - gās, gōs, gūs (Middle Low German)
    - *gösel (Middle Low German)
      - Gössel (Low German)
        
        Gössel (German)
gás (gȧs) (Old Norse)
- gą̊s (Elfdalian)
- gás (Faroese)
- gas (Gutnish)
- gás, gæs (Icelandic)
- gås (Norwegian Nynorsk)
gás (gȧs) (Old Norse)
- gās (Old Danish)
  - gás (Scanian)
gás (gȧs) (Old Norse)
- gās (Old Danish)
  - gås (Danish)
    - gås (Norwegian Bokmål)
gás (gȧs) (Old Norse)
- gās, ᚵᛆᛋ (Old Swedish)
  - gås (Swedish)
*𐌲𐌰𐌽𐍃 (*gans) (Gothic)
- gansu (Asturian)
- ganso (Galician)
- ganso (Portuguese)
- *gǫ̑sь (Proto-Slavic)
- ganso (Spanish)
ganta (Latin)
- ganta (Catalan)
ganta (Latin)
- gante, jante (Old French)
  - jante (Middle French)

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