Talk:guze

Etymology

Merriam-Webster says "origin unknown", Century says "A corruption of gules?", The old OED says "Of obscure origin; Cotgr[ave] 1611 has guses as a Fr[ench] word, with the same gloss", but fr.Wiktionary notes that guse is rarely attested in French outside dictionaries, and it seems easier (phonologically) to derive guse /ˈɡjuz/ from gules /ˈɡjulz/ in English than to derive guse \ɡyz\ from gueules \ɡœl\ in French. (Wikipedia, with no source, had derived it from Turkish گوز / göz, "eye", but the pronunciation is dissimilar, and I've removed that.) - -sche (discuss) 14:52, 3 May 2023 (UTC)