Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks (of a person). · To stimulate; to spur. · To gently accelerate (a vehicle); to give repeated, small taps on the accelerator of (a vehicle); to feather the throttle of (a vehicle). · Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
PIE word *ǵʰh₂éns Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns Proto-Germanic *gans Old English gōs Middle English gos English goose From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns. Cognates Compare West Frisian goes, North Frisian göis (also Fering-Öömrang dialect North Frisian gus; Sölring dialect North Frisian Guus; Heligoland dialect North Frisian gus), Low German Goos, Gans, Dutch gans, German Gans, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian gås, Icelandic gæs, Irish gé, Latin ānser, Latvian zùoss, Russian гусь (gusʹ), Albanian gatë, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Avestan 𐬰𐬁 (zā), Sanskrit हंस (haṃsá). * The tailor's iron is so called from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentiongoosenm
- Inherited-form mentiongōsang
- Inherited-form mention*gansgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*gansgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*ǵʰh₂énsine-pro
- Cognate mentiongoesfy
- Cognate mentiongöisfrr
- Cognate mentiongusfrr
- Cognate mentionGuusfrr
- Cognate mentionGoosnds
- Cognate mentiongansnl
- Cognate mentionGansde
- Cognate mentiongåsno
- Cognate mentiongæsis
- Cognate mentiongéga
- Cognate mentionānserla
- Cognate mentionzosslv
- Cognate mentionгусьru
- Cognate mentiongatësq
- Cognate mentionχήνgrc
- Cognate mention𐬰𐬁ae
- Cognate mentionहंसsa
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"To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks (of a person).",
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