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, gan, ga, goo, goon, go
    • English: go
    • Geordie English: gan
    • Middle Scots: go, goe, gone
      • Scots: gan, gae, ga, gang
    • Yola: goe, gow, go, goeth (influnced by Irish silent -th)
• 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
• Old Dutch: gān
  • Middle Dutch: gâen
    • Dutch: gaan
      • Afrikaans: gaan
      • Javindo: ha, haat
      • Jersey Dutch: xân, xâne
      • Petjo: gaan, haan
    • Limburgish: gaon
• 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 (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

    • East Franconian:
    • German: gehen
    • Rhine Franconian: geh, gehe, gäh, gähe, gäj, gäje, gih, gihe, gej, geje

      Frankfurterisch: [g̥ε̃ː]

      Pennsylvania German: geh

    • Yiddish: גיין (geyn)