different between gans vs gals

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ælz/
• Rhymes: -ælz

Noun

gals

1. plural of gal

Anagrams

• lags, slag

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /??als/

Adjective

gals

1. masculine plural of gal

Noun

gals

1. plural of gal

Latvian

Etymology

Proto-Indo-European *g?elH- (ablauted to *g?ol-). Cognates: Lithuanian gãlas (“id.”), Old Prussian gallan (acc.), golis (“death”), Old Norse kveld (“evening, end of the day”), etc.

Semantic development:

1. "to stab" > "to kill" > "death", from here the verbs gal?t (“to slay”), galin?t, nogalin?t (“to kill”), the same development in Proto-West Germanic *kwalm also from *g?ol-
2. "to stab" > "a sharp point, tip, end."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?als]

Noun

gals m (1st declension)

1. tip, end
2. (figuratively) demise, death

Declension

Synonyms

• beigas

References

Occitan

Noun

gals

1. plural of gal

Old French

Noun

gals m

1. inflection of gal:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular