geason

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ǵʰeh₂-“to be gaping, yawn”
2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*gaisnī“barren, poor”
3. Old English · inherited fromgǣsne“deprived of, wanting, destitute, barren, sterile, dead”
4. Middle English · inherited fromgeson
5. English todaygeason

From Middle English geson, gesene (“rare, scarce”), from Old English gǣsne (“deprived of, wanting, destitute, barren, sterile, dead”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaisnī (“barren, poor”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to be gaping, yawn”). Cognate with Old High German geisini, keisini (“lack”), a noun, and more remotely with North Frisian gast (“barren”), Low German güst (“barren”).

Words from the same roots