Where does “geese” come from?

Geese comes from Middle English goos, Old English gōs, Proto-Germanic gans, and Proto-Indo-European ǵʰans-, originally denoting the waterfowl.

geese (English): plural of goose

Definitions

  1. plural of goose

Ancestry of “geese”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishgooseAny of various grazing waterfowl of the family...
2Middle Englishgoosgoose; The meat or corpse of a goose; a dead...
3Old Englishgōsgoose
4Proto-Germanicgansgoose
5Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰans-—

Words derived from “geese”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰans- →