gon

Clipping of English Gondi, from Gondi గోండి (gōṇḍī).

gon

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Gondi.

gon

1. (ISO symbol) gradian

Clipping of gonna. Compare Middle English gon, dialectal gan, Dutch gaan.

• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /ɡən/
• (stressed) IPA^(key): /ɡoʊn/, /ɡɔn/, [ɡõ(ʊ)]

• Audio (US):

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gon

2. (informal) Alternative form of gonna.

   I’m gon be there around four.

From Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, “angle”). More in Wikipedia at gradian § History and name.

gon (plural gons)

2. (geometry, trigonometry) One hundredth of a right angle: a gradian.

Clipping.

gon (plural gons)

1. (rail transport) Abbreviation of gondola car.

• NGO, Ngo, Ong, nog

gon

1. soft mutation of kon

gon

1. genitive singular of go

gon

1. contraction of gen +‎ yon

gon

1. Rōmaji transcription of ごん

From Old English gān, from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną, compare German gehen. Past tense supplied by Old English wendan, from Proto-Germanic *wandijaną, or a suppletive stem yed-, yod-, from Old English ēod-.

For the spelling geen in the representation of Northern Middle English in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale, see hom (“home”).

• goo, goon, go
• gan, ga (Northern); geen (pseudo-Northern)

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔ̝ːn/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːn
• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːn/ (Early Middle English)
• IPA^(key): /ɡaː/ (Northern)

gon

2. to go
   • c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “Paſſus .xx᷒. ⁊ prım᷒ de Dobeſt”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 124, recto; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:

     Heuy chered I yede. and elenge in herte / I ne wıſte wher to ete. ne at what place

     I travelled grave-faced and with a gloomy heart; / I didn't know where or at what point to eat.

• English: go
• Geordie: gan
• Middle Scots: go, goe, gone
  • Scots: gan, gae, gang, ging, gyang
• Yola: goe, go, gow

• “gōn, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• Smith, Jeremy J. (1994), “The Great Vowel Shift in the North of England, and Some Forms in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen‎^[1], volume 95, number 4, Helsinki: Modern Language Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 434.

From Old English gān, ġegān, past participle of gān (“to go”), from Proto-Germanic *gānaz, past participle of *gāną (“to go”); equivalent to gon +‎ -en.

• gone, igon, gan, ȝegan

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔːn/
• (Early Middle English, Northern) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

gon

2. past participle of gon (“to go”)

• English: gone
• Geordie: gyen
• Scots: gane
• Yola: gome

From Lady Gunilda; a name for a crossbow. More at English gun.

gon

1. alternative form of gunne

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gònъ. Compare Czech hon, Russian гон (gon), and Silesian gōn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Syllabification: gon

gon m inan

1. (hunting) chase, pursuit

   Synonyms: gonitwa, gońba, pogoń

2. (hunting) barking of hounds during a hunt
3. mating season of fallow deer and chamois

   Hypernym: okres godowy

4. (obsolete) hunt, hunting

   Synonyms: łów, polowanie

• gon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Proto-Celtic *gonô, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to strike, kill”).

gon (past ghon, future gonaidh, verbal noun gonadh, past participle gonte)

1. hurt, prick, wound

From English gun.

• IPA^(key): /ɡon/

gon

1. gun

Cognate with Tataltepec Chatino ncu̱ (“tortoise”), Western Highland Chatino nkuun⁴ (“tortoise”).

• IPA^(key): /nkõ/, [ŋɡõ]

gon

1. armadillo

• Sullivant, J. Ryan (October 2016), “Appendix: Reintroducing Teojomulco Chatino”, in International Journal of American Linguistics‎^[2], page [5]