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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gān
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *gāną.
Verb
*gān[1]
- to go
Inflection
*gaiþi, ?, ?
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Related terms
- *gangī
Descendants
- Old English: gān
- Middle English: gon, gan, ga; goo, goon, go
- English: go
- Northumbrian: gan
- Scots: gan, gae, ga, gang
- Yola: goe, gow, go
- English: go
- Middle English: gon, gan, ga; goo, goon, go
- Old Frisian: gān
- Saterland Frisian: geen (simple past, past participle of gunge)
- West Frisian: gean
- Old Saxon: gān
- Middle Low German: gân
- Dutch Low Saxon: gan, gaon
- German Low German: gahn
- Plautdietsch: gone
- Middle Low German: gân
- Old Dutch: gān
- Middle Dutch: gâen
- Dutch: gaan
- Afrikaans: gaan
- Javindo: ha, haat
- Jersey Dutch: xân, xâne
- Petjo: gaan, haan
- Limburgish: gaon
- Dutch: gaan
- Middle Dutch: gâen
- Old High German: gān, gēn
- Middle High German: gān, gēn, kēn
- Alemannic German: gaa, gan, ge, gi, goo, gu
- Swabian: gau, geha
- Bavarian: geh, gea, gean, gian
- Cimbrian: gian, ghéenan
- Northern Bavarian: [ɡ̊ɛi]
- Central Franconian: giehn, gohn, john, jonn
- Hunsrik: gehn, keen
- Luxembourgish: goen
- East Central German: gii, giin (Erzgebirgisch)
- Upper Saxon:
- Vilamovian: gejn
- East Franconian:
- German: gehen
- Rhine Franconian: geh, gehe, gäh, gähe, gäj, gäje, gih, gihe, gej, geje
- Frankfurterisch: [g̥ε̃ː]
- Pennsylvania German: geh
- Yiddish: גיין (geyn)
- Alemannic German: gaa, gan, ge, gi, goo, gu
- Middle High German: gān, gēn, kēn
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109: “*gān”