< Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic
Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gans
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (compare Irish gé, Latin ānser, Latvian zùoss, Russian гусь (gusʹ), Albanian gatë, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Avestan 𐬰𐬁 (zā), Sanskrit हंस (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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɣɑns/
Noun
*gans f
- goose
Inflection
consonant stemDeclension of *gans (consonant stem) | |||
---|---|---|---|
singular | plural | ||
nominative | *gans | *gansiz | |
vocative | *gans | *gansiz | |
accusative | *gansų | *gansunz | |
genitive | *gansiz | *gansǫ̂ | |
dative | *gansi | *gansumaz | |
instrumental | *gansē | *gansumiz |
Derived terms
- *gansiz
- *gansô ~ *ganzô
Related terms
- *ganataz
- *ganatô
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *gans
- Old English: gōs
- Middle English: goos, goce, gos, gose, gosse
- English: goose
- Scots: guse
- Middle English: goos, goce, gos, gose, gosse
- Old Frisian: *gōs
- North Frisian:
- Most dialects: gus
- Sylt: Guus
- Wiedingharde: goos
- Saterland Frisian: Gous
- West Frisian: goes
- North Frisian:
- Old Saxon: *gās, *gōs
- Middle Low German: gās, gōs, gūs
- German Low German: Goos
- Middle Low German: gās, gōs, gūs
- Old Dutch: *gans
- Middle Dutch: gans
- Dutch: gans, goes
- Afrikaans: gans
- → Xhosa: urhanisi
- → Zulu: ihansi
- Jersey Dutch: xânz
- Negerhollands: gans
- → Arawak: kansa
- → Caribbean Hindustani: hans
- → Papiamentu: gans (dated)
- → Sranan Tongo: gansi
- → Aukan: gansi
- → Saramaccan: gánsi
- Afrikaans: gans
- Dutch: gans, goes
- Middle Dutch: gans
- Old High German: gans, kans
- Middle High German: gans, gas
- Alemannic German: Gaas, Gants
- German: Gans
- Luxembourgish: Gäns, Gaus
- Vilamovian: gaons
- Yiddish: גאַנדז (gandz)
- Middle High German: gans, gas
- Old English: gōs
- Old Norse: gás
- Icelandic: gás, ⇒ gæs (analogously after plural gæss)
- Faroese: gás
- Norwegian Nynorsk: gås
- Elfdalian: gą̊s
- Westrobothnian: gås, gas
- Old Swedish: gās
- Swedish: gås
- Old Danish: gās
- Danish: gås
- Norwegian Bokmål: gås
- Scanian: gás
- Danish: gås
- Gutnish: gas
- Gothic: *𐌲𐌰𐌽𐍃 (*gans)
- → Asturian: gansu
- → Galician: ganso
- → Portuguese: ganso
- → Spanish: ganso
- →? Proto-Slavic: *gǫ̑sь (see there for further descendants)
- → Latin: ganta