different between gans vs gads

English

Verb

gans

1. (Tyneside) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gan

Anagrams

• AGNs, ANGs, GNAs, NSAG, nags, sang, snag

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch gans.

Noun

gans (plural ganse)

1. goose

Descendants

• Xhosa: urhanisi
• Zulu: ihansi

Cornish

Alternative forms

• gen

Etymology

From Old Cornish cant, from Proto-Celtic *kanta (“together with”).

Preposition

gans

1. with (in the company of)
2. with (expresses possession of something on one's person)
3. by (indicates the actor of a clause in the passive voice)
4. by (indicates the creator of a work)

Antonyms

• (with): hep, heb

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ns/
• Hyphenation: gans
• Rhymes: -?ns

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gans (alongside g?s, g?s), from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans.

Noun

gans f (plural ganzen, diminutive gansje n)

1. A goose, a waterfowl of the family Anatidae, especially of the subfamily Anserinae excepting the genera Cygnus and Coscoroba; in non-scientific usage the term may be applied to larger waterfowl of the Anatidae who do not belong to the Anserinae.

Alternative forms

• goes (dialectal)

Derived terms

• boerengans
• brandgans
• domme gans
• ganzenbord
• ganzenlever
• ganzenpas
• ganzeveer
• grauwe gans
• halfgans
• huisgans
• Indische gans
• nijlgans
• rotgans
• sneeuwgans
• vetgans
• zeegans
• zwaangans
• zwarte gans

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gans
• ? Sranan Tongo: gansi

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch gansch, gands, gants, gans, from Old High German ganz, from Proto-West Germanic *gant (“all, whole, entire”).

Determiner

gans

1. whole, entire

   Het ganse land.

   The entire country.

Inflection

Alternative forms

• gansch (obsolete)

Synonyms

• geheel, heel, volledig

Adverb

gans

1. entirely

   Synonyms: geheel, helemaal, volledig

Alternative forms

• gansch (obsolete)

Indonesian

Etymology

ganteng + -s

Pronunciation

Adjective

gans

1. (slang, text messaging) handsome

Latvian

Noun

gans m (1st declension, feminine form: gane)

1. (male) shepherd

Declension

Scots

Verb

gans

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of gan

Volapük

Noun

gans

1. nominative plural of gan

English

Noun

gads

1. plural of gad

Verb

gads

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gad

Anagrams

• S.D. Ga., dags

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *gad-, from Proto-Indo-European *g?od-, o-grade of *g?ed- (“to unify, to match”) (whence also gad?ties, q.v.). The semantic evolution of the term probably went from “matching, appropriate” > “appropriate, determined, specific time (period)” > “(church) holiday” > “sequence of church holidays in a year” > “year”. Since this evolution parallels that of Russian ??? (god), there may also have been Russian influence on the meaning changes of Latvian gads. Cognates include Lithuanian gadýn? (“time, period”) (< Belarusian ???????? (hadzína)), Old Church Slavonic ???? (god?, “suitable time, holiday, year”), Russian, Belarusian ??? (god, “year”), Upper Sorbian hod, hody (“winter holidays”), Czech hod (“church holiday”), Polish gody (“wedding feast, wedding”), Serbo-Croatian g?d (“name day, important holiday”).

Noun

gads m (1st declension)

1. year

Declension

Derived terms

• gadsimts
• n?kamgad, n?košgad, šogad, togad

References

Scots

Interjection

gads

1. Expression of disgust