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
Ancestry of “geese”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | goose | Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family... |
| 2 | Middle English | goos | goose; The meat or corpse of a goose; a dead... |
| 3 | Old English | gōs | goose |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | gans | goose |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰans- | — |