gås
Danish
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse gás, from Proto-Germanic *gans, cognate with Swedish gås, English goose, German Gans, Dutch gans. The Germanic noun derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”), which is also the source of Latin ānser, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Lithuanian žąsìs, Sanskrit हंस (haṃsá).
Noun
[edit]gås c (singular definite gåsen, plural indefinite gæs)
Inflection
[edit]| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | gås | gåsen | gæs | gæssene |
| genitive | gås' | gåsens | gæs' | gæssenes |
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]gås
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse gás, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”); cognate with English goose, German Gans.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gås m or f (definite singular gåsen or gåsa, indefinite plural gjess or gjæser, definite plural gjessene or gjæsene)
- a goose
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- gasse (male goose - a gander)
References
[edit]- “gås” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
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Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse gás f (nominative and accusative plurals gæss), from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns, probably of imitative origin.
Germanic cognates include Icelandic gæs, Faroese gás, Elfdalian gą̊s, Danish and Swedish gås, German Gans, German Low German Goos, Dutch gans, and finally English goose. Indo-European cognates include Albanian gatë (“heron”), Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Hindi हंस (hans), Latin ānser, and Lithuanian žąsìs.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gås f (definite singular gåsa, indefinite plural gjæser, definite plural gjæsene)
Inflection
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| Aasen1 | Gaas | Gaasi | Gjæser | Gjæserna | |
| 1901 | gaas | gaasi | gjæser (gjæsar) | gjæserne (gjæsane) | |
| 1917 | gås | gåsa, gåsi | gjæser, gjæsser | gjæsene, gjæserne, gjæssene, gjæsserne | |
| 1938 | gås | gåsa [gåsi] | gjæser | gjæsene | |
| 2012 (current) | gås | gåsa | gjæser | gjæsene | |
- Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
- Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.
- Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.
- 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- gasse m (“a gander (male goose)”)
References
[edit]- “gås” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Swedish gās, from Old Norse gás, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”). Cognate with English goose, German Gans, etc.
In the other senses; referring to the goose ability to float on water.
Noun
[edit]gås c
- a goose
- (as product) a lump of butter that float on top the cream during churning
- Synonym: smörklump
- (dated, as dish) butter flavoured with salt and given pleasing form, to be served as spread
- (dated) a sandwich
- (slang, often with weak declension) a joint (marijuana cigarette)
- att röka en gås
- to smoke a joint
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | gås | gås |
| definite | gåsen | gåsens | |
| plural | indefinite | gäss | gäss |
| definite | gässen | gässens |
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]gås
References
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- Danish non-lemma forms
- Danish verb forms
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål feminine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns with multiple genders
- nb:Birds
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns
- nn:Botany
- nn:Birds
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish
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- Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
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- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- sv:Birds