gos

gos

1. Alternative form of goes (“plural of go”).

Onomatopoeic word used to call dogs.

gos m (plural goses)

1. dog

• can
• cocho
• chucho

• ca

• goç (obsolete)

Onomatopoeic word used to call dogs.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)

• Audio (Valencia):

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gos m (plural gossos, feminine gossa, feminine plural gosses)

1. dog

   Synonyms: ca, quisso

2. (figurative) a lazy man

   Synonyms: gandul, malfeiner

3. laziness

   Synonym: mandra

• “gos”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , April 2007
• “gos” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “gos”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

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From Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”). Compare Breton gwaz, Welsh gwas and Old Irish foss.

gos

1. servant, servant of- (in name-formations)

• (2006) Celtic Culture: A-Celti
• Name-formations (e.g. Gosmungo, Gospatric)

gos

1. plural of go

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /kɔːs/
• Rhymes: -ɔːs

gos n (genitive singular goss, nominative plural gos)

1. (geology) eruption (of a geyser, volcano, etc.)
2. soda (US), fizzy pop (UK)

   Synonym: gosdrykkur

• eldgos
• ferðamannagos
• gosberg
• gosdrykkur

• “gos” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

• sog

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔsˠ/, /ɡəsˠ/

gos (plus dative, triggers no mutation)

1. (archaic, except in fixed phrases) alternative form of go (“until, up to”) (used before the definite article)

   gos an lá inniu ― up to today, until the present day

• Only used in a few fixed phrases like gos an lá inniu. Otherwise, the synonym go dtí is used before the article.

• goce, goos, gose, gosse

From Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans; compare gandre.

• IPA^(key): /ɡoːs/

gos (plural ges)

1. goose (especially a female one)
2. The meat or corpse of a goose; a dead goose.
3. A fool or idiot.

• goshauk
• goslyng
• gossomer

• English: goose
• Scots: guise

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈkos/

gos

1. where, in what place (interrogative)
2. whence, from where (interrogative)
3. where (relative)
4. whence, from where (relative)

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

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• Audio (Languedoc):

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gos m (plural gosses)

1. dog

From Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰans-.

• IPA^(key): /ɡoːs/

gōs f

1. goose
   • Exeter Book:

     Hwīlum iċ grǣde swā gōs.

     Sometimes I cry like a goose.

Strong consonant stem:

• Middle English: gos, goce, goos, gose, gosse
  • English: goose
  • Scots: guise

gos n

1. alternative form of gās

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

gos

Wikipedia ^sl

From Proto-Slavic *gǫ̑sь.

• IPA^(key): /ɡóːs/

gọ̑s f

1. goose

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

• “gos”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Deverbal from gosa.

gos n (colloquial)

1. cuddliness
2. (action of) cuddling, snuggling

gos

1. ear