 In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English "gōs" with the plural "gēs" and "gandres" (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, and gosling, respectively), Frisian "goes", "gies" and "guoske", New High German "Gans", "Gänse", and "Ganter", and Old Norse "gās".This term also gave , (goose, from Old Irish "géiss"), , , Ancient ("khēn"), , (heron), Sanskrit "haṃsa" and "haṃsī" ("gander" and "goose", also the words for male and female swans), , Avestan "zāō", , , ("guska" / "gusak"), ("gusyna" / "gus"), , and ("ghāz").The three living genera of true geese are