Where does “goose” come from?

Goose comes from Middle English goos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-Germanic gans, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰans-.

goose (English): Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family...

Definitions

  1. Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family...

Ancestry of “goose”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishgoosgoose; The meat or corpse of a goose; a dead...
2Old Englishgōsgoose
3Proto-Germanicgansgoose
4Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰans-—

Words derived from “goose”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰans- →