Where does “gooseberry” come from?

Gooseberry comes from Middle English goose-bery, combining goose with bery (berry), from Old English byrġan, ultimately traced through Proto-Germanic gans and Proto-Indo-European roots bʰer-, bʰeh₂-, and bʰerǵʰ-.

gooseberry (English): A fruit, "Ribes uva-crispa", related to the...

Definitions

  1. A fruit, "Ribes uva-crispa", related to the...

Ancestry of “gooseberry”, step by step

gooseberry traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Berry

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishBerryA place name
2Middle Englishberyeberry, fruit; grape
3Old Englishberġeberry
4Proto-West Germanicbaʀiberry
5Proto-Germanicbazjąberry
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeh₂-to shine, glow light; to speak, say
7Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeh₂-s-ri-—

via English goose

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 “gooseberry”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₂-s-ri- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₂- →Every word from Proto-Germanic bazją →
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