Where does “goos” come from?

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

goos (Middle English): goose; The meat or corpse of a goose; a dead...

Definitions

  1. goose; The meat or corpse of a goose; a dead...

Ancestry of “goos”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishgōsgoose
2Proto-Germanicgansgoose
3Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰans-

Words derived from “goos

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰans-Every word from Proto-Germanic gansEvery word from Old English gōs