Gants

See also: gants

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• Gaas (Bern)

Etymology

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

Gants

1. (Uri) goose

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.