on hand gan
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *ana handų gāną, literally “to go into [someone's] hand” (= "hands"). Cognate with Old Norse ganga á hǫnd, cf. Old English gangan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /on ˈxɑnd ˌɡɑːn/, [on ˈhɑnd ˌɡɑːn]
Verb
on hand gān
- to surrender or give oneself up (+ dative to someone)
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- Siþþan him ēodon on hand fēowertiġ burga, and six and twēntiġ hē ġeēode mid ġefeohte.
- After that, 40 towns surrendered to him, and he conquered 26 by fighting.
- c. 935, King Æthelstan's sixth law code
- Ne slēa man nānne ġingran mann þonne fiftīenewinterne mann, būtan hē hine werian wille oþþe flēo and on hand gān nylle.
- No one should be executed who is younger than a fifteen-year-old, unless they resist arrest or try to escape and refuse to give themselves up.
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Conjugation
See the conjugation for gān.
Derived terms
- handgang