English word origin

Etymology of Goss

* As an English surname, spelling variant of Gosse. * As a German surname, from a personal name related to the adjective gut (“good”) or Gott (“god”).

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Unnumbered source etymology

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name

A surname. · An unincorporated community in Marion County, Mississippi, United States. · A village in Monroe County, Missouri, United States.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

* As an English surname, spelling variant of Gosse. * As a German surname, from a personal name related to the adjective gut (“good”) or Gott (“god”).

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Machine-source provenance

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