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

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Gaas”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 1.
• Forebears

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• Gants (Uri)

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

• (surname): Borrowed from Occitan and originating from Landes.
• (toponym): Borrowed from Occitan Gars.

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

Further reading

• Michel Grosclaude, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de famille gascons, Orthez, per noste, 2003, →ISBN, page 129
• filae.com
• Forebears (French)