Gans

From gans.

• IPA^(key): /ɣɑns/
• Hyphenation: Gans
• Rhymes: -ɑns

Gans

1. a surname

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.

• IPA^(key): /ɡans/, [ɡans], (colloquial or non-careful speech) [ɡant͡s]

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• Homophone: ganz (colloquial or non-careful speech)

Gans f (genitive Gans, plural Gänse, diminutive Gänschen n or Gänslein n)

1. goose
2. (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!

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   • 1909 [1901], Thomas Mann, chapter 9, in Buddenbrooks […] ‎^[2], Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, →OCLC, part 4, page 222:

     Geh' nur! Meinst du, daß ich dir nachheule, du Gans? Ach nein, Sie irren sich, meine Teuerste!

     Get along with you! Did you think I'd whine after you, you goose? You are very much mistaken, my darling.

• “Gans” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Gans” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Gans” in Duden online
• “Gans”, in PONS (in German), Stuttgart: PONS GmbH, 2001–2025
• “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"

From Middle High German gans, from Old High German gans, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.

• IPA^(key): /kans/
• Rhymes: -ans
• Hyphenation: Gans

Gans f (plural Gens, diminutive Gensje)

1. (zoology) goose

   Die Gens sin bees.

   Geese are brave.

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Gans”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 62

From Middle High German and Old High German gans, from Proto-West Germanic *gans. Compare German Gans, Dutch gans, English goose, Danish gås.

Gans f (plural Ganse)

1. goose