Where does “Gans” come from?

Gans (Pennsylvania German) comes from Proto-Germanic gans, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰans-.

Gans (Pennsylvania German): goose

Definitions

  1. goose

Ancestry of “Gans”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicgansgoose
2Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰans-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰans- →Every word from Proto-Germanic gans →