I used the expression \"take a gander\" in something I wrote this morning.\u00a0 Curious about its origin, I found this:<\/p>\n
\"Where Did the Phrase 'Take a Gander' Come From?<\/a>\" (Today I Found Out [9\/22\/12])<\/p>\n This is an interesting, informative article, from which I learned much, including the PIE root for \"goose\",\u00a0 and the fact that geese can\u00a0 fly as high as 30,000 feet!<\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/p>\n As soon as I saw that the <\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small>PIE root for \"goose\" is <\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small>*ghans-, it reminded me of the Sinitic word for \"wild goose\", <\/span><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small>MSM y\u00e0n \u96c1 (\"wild goose\"), Cantonese ngaan6, Hakka ngien \/ ngian, Northern Min ng\u0101ing, Eastern Min ng\u00e2ng, Southern Min g\u0101n (Hokkien), ngang6 (Teochew, Peng'im), Wu nge (T3).<\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/span><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/p>\n When we turn to <\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/span><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small>Old Sinitic, the resemblance is quite striking:\u00a0 *\u014br\u00e2ns (Schuessler) \/ <\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small>*C.[\u014b]\u02e4rar-s (Baxter-Sagart) \/ *\u014bra\u02d0ns (<\/span><\/span><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small>Zhengzhang<\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small>).\u00a0 Cf. Middle Sinitic <\/span>\u014ban<\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small>C<\/sup><\/span> (Schuessler) \/ <\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small>\u2039\u2009ng\u00e6nH<\/sup><\/i>\u2009\u203a (<\/span>Baxter-Sagart) \/ \u014b\u02e0anH (<\/span><\/span><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small>Zhengzhang<\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small>).<\/span><\/span><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/p>\n It is curious that \"gander\" and \"goose\" come from the same PIE root:<\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/p>\n <\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small> Old English gandra<\/span> \"male goose,\" from Proto-Germanic *gan(d)ron<\/span> (source also of Dutch gander<\/span>, Middle Low German ganre<\/span>), from PIE *ghans-<\/span> \"goose\" (from Etymonline<\/a>) <\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small> Old English gos<\/span> \"a goose,\" from Proto-Germanic *gans-<\/span> \"goose\" (source also of Old Frisian gos<\/span>, Old Norse gas<\/span>, Old High German gans<\/span>, German Gans<\/span> \"goose\"), from PIE *ghans-<\/span> (source also of Sanskrit hamsah<\/span> (masc.))<\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/p>\n (from Etymonline<\/a>)<\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small><\/p>\n <\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big><\/big><\/small> What's good for the gander is good for the goose.<\/p>\n Readings<\/b><\/p>\n N.B.:\u00a0 In the above posts and elsewhere, I have discussed the IE parallels of the Sinitic words for \"horse\", \"wheel\", \"magic(ian)\", \"coral\", \"lion\", \"honey\", \"wheat\", \"dog\", and many other key terms of Eurasian civilization.\u00a0 More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I used the expression \"take a gander\" in something I wrote this morning.\u00a0 Curious about its origin, I found this: \"Where Did the Phrase 'Take a Gander' Come From?\" (Today I Found Out [9\/22\/12]) This is an interesting, informative article, from which I learned much, including the PIE root for \"goose\",\u00a0 and the fact that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,178,292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borrowing","category-etymology","category-reconstructions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40494,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40459\/revisions\/40494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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