The story
- Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*ǵʰh₂énses
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*gansiz
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*gansi
- Old English · inherited fromgēs
- Middle English · inherited fromgees
- English todaygeese
From Middle English gees, ges, from Old English gēs, from Proto-West Germanic *gansi, from Proto-Germanic *gansiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂énses, nominative plural of *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.