Gaas

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English

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Etymology

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  • (surname): Possibly borrowed, among other languages, from French Gaas (itself from Occitan).

Proper noun

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Gaas (plural Gaass)

  1. A village in the Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
  2. A surname.

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Alemannic German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Bernian gas, gans, from Old High German gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰans-. Cognate with German Gans, Dutch gans, English goose, Icelandic gæs.

Noun

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Gaas f (genitive singular Gases, plural Gëes, genitive plural Gësens)

  1. (Bern) goose

Danish

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Noun

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Gaas c (singular definite Gaasen, plural indefinite Gæs)

  1. Obsolete spelling of gås.

French

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Etymology

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Proper noun

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Gaas m or f by sense

  1. Gaas (a village in the Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)
    Holonym: Landes
  2. a surname from Occitan

Descendants

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  • English: Gaas

References

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  1. ^ Michel Grosclaude, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de famille gascons, Orthez, per noste, 2003, →ISBN, page 129

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Hunsrik

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Etymology

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From Dutch gas.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Gaas n (plural Gaase)

  1. gas
    Das Gaas is all waar.
    The (cooking) gas ran out.

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