Gaas

See also: gaas and GAAs

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Gaas (plural Gaass)

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

Further reading

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

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

  1. (Bern) goose

Danish

Noun

Gaas c (singular definite Gaasen, plural indefinite Gæs)

  1. Obsolete spelling of gås

French

Etymology

Proper noun

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

  • English: Gaas

References

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

Further reading

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