gás

From Old Norse gás, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰans-. Cognates include Old English gōs (English goose), Old Frisian gōs (West Frisian goes), Old Saxon gōs, gās (German Low German Goos), Dutch gans, Old High German gans (German Gans), Portuguese ganso, Spanish ganso.

• IPA^(key): /kɔɑːs/

gás f (genitive singular gásar, plural gæs)

1. goose (Anser)

Declension of gás
f25	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gás	gásin	gæs	gæsnar
accusative	gás	gásina	gæs	gæsnar
dative	gás	gásini	gásum	gásunum, gæsnum
genitive	gásar	gásarinnar	gása	gásanna

• storkur
• svanur
• dunna

• geas

From Dutch gas, a word coined by chemist Van Helmont. Perhaps inspired by Dutch geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”) or from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void”).

gás m (genitive singular gáis, nominative plural gáis)

1. gas
2. paraffin oil

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gás”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “gas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024

From Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰans-. Cognates include Old English gōs (English goose), Old Frisian gōs (West Frisian goes), Old Saxon gōs, gās (German Low German Goos), Dutch gans, Old High German gans (German Gans), Portuguese ganso, Spanish ganso.

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ɡɒ̃ːs/

gás f (genitive gásar, plural gæss)

1. goose
2. vulva

• Icelandic: gás, ⇒ gæs (analogously after plural gæss)
• Faroese: gás
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gås
• Elfdalian: gą̊s
• Old Swedish: gās, ᚵᛆᛋ
  • Swedish: gås
• Old Danish: gās
  • Danish: gås
    • Norwegian Bokmål: gås
  • Scanian: gás
• Gutnish: gas

Borrowed from French gaz,^[1] from Dutch gas, from Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos).^[2]

• Hyphenation: gás

gás m (plural gases)

1. gas
2. (in the plural) fart