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From PIE *ǵʰans- ("goose"). Another translingual commonality, compare:
- Sino-Tibetan:
- Chinese: 雁, 鴈, 鳱 (yàn, OC *ŋraːns, "wild goose")
- Tibetan: ངང་པ (ngang pa, "goose, wild goose, duck, swan")
- Burmese: ငန်း (ngan:, /ŋá̃/, "goose, swan")
- Altaic:
- Turkic: *kāz ~ kāŕ ("goose")
- Tungusic:
- Mongolic:
- Mongolian: галуу (galuu, "goose")
- Korean: 기러기 (kileki, "goose")
- Japanese: かり (kari, "goose")
- Austroasiatic:
- Vietnamese: ngỗng ("goose")
- Khmer: ក្ងាន (kŋaan, "goose")
- Tai-Kadai:
- Thai: ห่าน (hààn, "goose")
More. Hbrug 03:21, 31 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
- Many Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Aryan, Turkic, all seem to derive from the same root. --Anatoli 03:30, 31 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
the old form was gans or gand --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:31, 6 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
So the verb goose isnt from us pinching the bottoms of geese to determine their sex? I can readily believe that i was wrong, but i do still wonder if this is one of those terms that has changed its meaning as farming has receded and most of our encounters with animals are in playful situations, and that in our modern safety we might find it amusing that the geese have managed to get us back with the very same thing we've long been doing to them. Even so, a pinch > pinch derivation is more straightforward than bite > pinch, so Im not wholly convinced i was mistaken. —Soap— 10:55, 14 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Listed in John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873). Equinox ◑ 15:29, 19 April 2024 (UTC)Reply