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) [ˈɡos]

• 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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 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.

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^[1], 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^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡus]

• 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

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.

Feminine, i-stem, long mixed accent
nom. sing.	gós
gen. sing.	gosí
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	gós	gosí	gosí
genitive (rodȋlnik)	gosí	gosí	gosí
dative (dajȃlnik)	gósi	goséma	gosém
accusative (tožȋlnik)	gós	gosí	gosí
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	gósi	goséh	goséh
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	gosjó	goséma	gosmí

• “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