Feminine
rotgans
Meaning
the brent goose, brant (Branta bernicla)
Concepts
Translations
bernache cravant
barnacla carinegra
oca colombaccio
Branta bernicla
ganso-de-faces-negras
Weißwangengans
Yosun kazıPronounced as (IPA)
/ˈrɔt.xɑns/
Etymology
Partial calque from a Scandinavian language. The first element is onomatopoeic and is unrelated to rot (“rot; rotten”) and rot- (“bad, nasty”); the second element is simply gans (“goose”).
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