Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gān

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

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, goo, goon, go, gan, ga (Northern), geen (pseudo-Northern)
  - English: go
  - Geordie: gan
  - Middle Scots: go, goe, gone
    - Scots: gan, gae, gang, ging, gyang
  - Yola: goe, go, gow
Old Frisian: gān
- Saterland Frisian: geen (simple past, past participle of gunge)
- West Frisian: gean
Old Saxon: gān
- Middle Low German: gân
  - Low German: gahn
    - Dutch Low Saxon: gan, gaan, gaon
    - German Low German: gahn
  - Plautdietsch: gonen
Old Dutch: gān
- Middle Dutch: gâen
  - Dutch: gaan
    - Afrikaans: gaan
    - Javindo: ha, haat
    - Jersey Dutch: xân, xâne
    - Petjo: gaan, haan
  - Limburgish: gaon, goëne
Old High German: gān, gēn, kēn
- 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 (Sette Comuni)
    
    Northern Bavarian: [ɡ̊ɛi]
  - Central Franconian: giehn, gohn (northeastern Moselle Franconian), john, jonn (Ripuarian)
    Hunsrik: gehn, keen
    
    Luxembourgish: goen
  - East Central German: gii, giin (Erzgebirgisch)
    Upper Saxon German:
    
    Vilamovian: gejn, gyjn
  - East Franconian:
  - German: gehen
  - Rhine Franconian: geh, gehe, gäh, gähe, gäj, gäje, gih, gihe, gej, geje
    Frankfurterisch: [g̥ε̃ː]
    
    Pennsylvania German: geh
  - Yiddish: גיין (geyn)

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”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109: “*gān”

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