gannet

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• UK: /ˈɡænɪt/
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From Middle English ganet, gante, from Old English ganot, from Proto-West Germanic *ganat, *ganatō, from Proto-Germanic *ganatuz, *ganutô (“gander”), ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *ganzô. Cognates Cognate with Dutch gent, Middle Low German gante, German Ganter, Ganser, all “gander, male goose”.

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Asturian: mazcatu — sea bird
• Asturian: cofre — sea bird
• Catalan: mascarell — sea bird
• Czech: terej — sea bird
• Dutch: jan-van-gent — sea bird
• Estonian: suula — sea bird
• Faroese: súla — sea bird
• Finnish: suula — sea bird
• French: fou — sea bird
• Galician: mascato — sea bird
• German: Basstölpel — sea bird
• German: Tölpel — sea bird
• Greek: σούλα (soúla) — sea bird
• Greenlandic: timmik — sea bird
• Hungarian: szula — sea bird
• Icelandic: súla — sea bird
• Ido: ganeto — sea bird
• Irish: gainéad — sea bird
• Irish: ogastún — sea bird
• Italian: sula — sea bird
• Macedonian: блуна (bluna) — sea bird
• Māori: karake — sea bird
• Māori: tākapu — sea bird
• Khiamniungan Naga: khìamvèu — sea bird
• Navajo: taahilnoodii — sea bird
• Norman: mauve à maq'thé — sea bird
• Norman: mèrgaud — sea bird
• Norwegian Bokmål: sule — sea bird
• Old English: ganot — sea bird
• Polish: głuptak — sea bird
• Portuguese: alcatraz — sea bird
• Romanian: gâscă de mare — sea bird
• Russian: о́луша (óluša) — sea bird
• Scottish Gaelic: sùlaire — sea bird
• Scottish Gaelic: guga — sea bird
• Spanish: alcatraz — sea bird
• Welsh: hugan — sea bird
• Welsh: gwylanwydd — sea bird