Where does “gisa” come from?

gisa (Malagasy) comes from English geese, from English goose, from Middle English goos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-Germanic gans, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰans-.

gisa (Malagasy): goose

Definitions

  1. goose

Ancestry of “gisa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishgeeseplural of goose
2EnglishgooseAny of various grazing waterfowl of the family...
3Middle Englishgoosgoose; The meat or corpse of a goose; a dead...
4Old Englishgōsgoose
5Proto-Germanicgansgoose
6Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰans-—

Words derived from “gisa”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰans- →