Where does “gosse” come from?

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

gosse (Middle English): Alternative form of goos

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of goos

Ancestry of “gosse”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishgoosgoose; The meat or corpse of a goose; a dead...
2Old Englishgōsgoose
3Proto-Germanicgansgoose
4Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰans-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰans- →Every word from Proto-Germanic gans →Every word from Old English gōs →