Gans
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Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From gans.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gans
- a surname
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German gans, from Old High German gans, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.
Compare Low German Gans, Goos, Dutch gans, English goose, Danish gås.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ɡans/, [ɡans], (colloquial or non-careful speech) [ɡant͡s]
audio (file) audio (file) - Homophone: ganz (colloquial or non-careful speech)
Noun[edit]
Gans f (genitive Gans, plural Gänse, diminutive Gänschen n or Gänslein n)
- goose
- (derogatory, for a female referent) hen; silly goose
- eingebildete Gans ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- dumme Gans ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- 1851, Heinrich Heine, “Mythologie”, in Romanzero[1], Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:
- Aber tief muß uns empören / Was wir von der Leda lesen– / Welche Gans bist du gewesen, / Daß ein Schwan dich konnt betören!
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Gans [feminine]
Hyponyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “Gans” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Gans” in Duden online
- “Gans”, in PONS (in German), Stuttgart: PONS GmbH, 2001–2023
- “Gans” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
Gans on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Duden: Das Aussprachewörterbuch: Aussprache und Betonung von über 132000 Wörtern und Namen, 7th ed., 2015, p. 389, 2nd column: "Gans ɡans, Gänse 'ɡɛnzə"
- Eva-Maria Krech, Eberhard Stock, Ursula Hirschfeld, Lutz-Christian Anders, with contributions by Walter Haas, Ingrid Hove, Peter Wiesinger and others, and with assistance by Ines Bose, Uwe Hollmach, Baldur Neuber, Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch, Walter de Gruyter, 2009, p. 528: "Gans ɡans"
Pennsylvania German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German and Old High German gans, from Proto-West Germanic *gans. Compare German Gans, Dutch gans, English goose, Danish gås.
Noun[edit]
Gans f (plural Ganse)
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