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gan

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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gan

  1. (archaic) simple past of gin

Etymology 2

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Probably a variant of gang, from Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to step; walk; go”).

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Verb

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gan (third-person singular simple present gans, present participle gannin, simple past went or gan, past participle gone)

  1. (Northumbria) To go.
    • 2011, Chris Dockerty, Ramblings of a Geordie:
      The one problem I had here was my broad Geordie accent which the teachers tried their hardest to make me lose. I couldn't understand their problem with it because I could understand myself. Whenever I told them, "Am gannin yem", they would say, "No, Christopher. It's not "am gannin yem", it's "I am going home".

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Further reading

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  • Frank Graham, editor (1987), “GAN”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
  • Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “gan”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎[1], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]
  • “Gan”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎[3], archived from the original on 2024-09-05, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.
  • Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
  • Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “gan”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.

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Antillean Creole

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Etymology

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From French gant.

Noun

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gan

  1. glove

Bambara

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Etymology 1

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gan

  1. to jump

Etymology 2

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Adjective

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gan

  1. hot

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gan

  1. (transitive) to heat up

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Dharug

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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gan

  1. reptile
  2. (specifically) goanna

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  • Jakelin Troy (1993) The Sydney Language, Canberra, →ISBN, page 53

Dutch Low Saxon

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Verb

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gan

  1. Alternative spelling of gaon

Garo

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Bengali গান (gan).

Noun

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gan

  1. song

Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cen (“besides; without”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *kina (“on this side of”); compare Middle Welsh am-gen (“otherwise”), Breton ken (“otherwise”).

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Preposition

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gan (plus nominative, triggers no mutation in specific references but lenition in general references)

  1. without
  2. not (in conjunction with a verbal noun)

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  • In standard written Irish, triggers lenition (except of d, s, t) of unmodified nouns, e.g. gan phingin (“without a penny”). Does not trigger lenition of modified nouns, e.g. gan pingin ina phóca (“without a penny in his pocket”). In the meaning ‘not’, does not trigger lenition of either a verbal noun or on the direct object of the verbal noun, e.g. gan ceannach (“not to buy”), gan pingin a shaothrú (“not to earn a penny”).
  • Unlike most prepositions, gan takes the nominative case of nouns, as shown by the lack of mutation of consonant-initial masculine singular nouns after the definite article, for example gan an plúr (“without the flour”), and the presence of t-prothesis of vowel-initial masculine singular nouns after the article, for example gan an t-airgead (“without the money”).
  • Unlike most prepositions, gan does not form prepositional pronouns, but is instead followed by the disjunctive form of a personal pronoun, for example gan mé (“without me”), gan sinn (“without us”), gan é (“without him”).

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  • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127:
    ȷ imə šē leš gon ēn ńī ēkāl.
    [D’imigh sé leis gan aon ní a fheiceáil.]
    He left without seeing anything.
  • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127:
    l̄aurofŭī n̥ ʒēlǵə fōs əŕ fȧ nə ciŕə, ʒā mĭøx gn̥ n̄āŕə ə ve orī fuhə.
    [Labhrófaí an Ghaeilge fós ar feadh na tíre dhá mbeadh gan náire a bheith oraibh fúithi.]
    Irish would still be spoken in the whole country if you pl were not ashamed of it.
  • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 128:
    hāniǵ šē ʒā rā, n̄ax mĭai šə sə mŭȧlə ən̄óxt agəs gon kūrm̥ ə ʒlakə fȳ.
    [Tháinig sé dhá rá nach mbeidh sé sa mbaile anocht agus gan cúram a ghlacadh faoi.]
    He came to say he won’t be home tonight and not to worry about him.

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 38, page 21
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127

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Japanese

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Romanization

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gan

  1. Rōmaji transcription of がん
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ガン

Jawe

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Noun

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gan

  1. tattoo

References

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  • André-Georges Haudricourt et Françoise Ozanne-Rivière, Dictionnaire thématique des langues de la région de Hienghène (Nouvelle-Calédonie) : pije - fwâi - nemi - jawe, Lacito - Documents, Asie-Austronésie 4, SELAF no. 212, Peeters, 1982

Latvian

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Conjunction

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gan

  1. both, and

Usage notes

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Used in pairs: gan jauna, gan skaista "both young and beautiful"

Mandarin

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Romanization

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gan

  1. Nonstandard spelling of gān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of gǎn.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of gàn.

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English ġeġn.

Preposition

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gan

  1. Alternative form of gain (“against”)

Etymology 2

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From Old English gān.

Verb

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gan

  1. (Early Middle English, Northern) Alternative form of gon (“to go”)

Etymology 3

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From Old English gān, ġegān.

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gan

  1. Alternative form of gon (“gone”)


Middle High German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old High German gān, gēn, from Proto-West Germanic *gān.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈɡaːn/

Verb

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gān (irregular, third-person singular present gāt, past tense gienc, past participle gegān or gegangen, past subjunctive gienge, auxiliary sīn)

  1. to go

Conjugation

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Conjugation of gān (irregular, auxiliary sīn)
infinitive gān
genitive gerund gānnes
gānes
dative gerund gānne
gāne
present participle gānde
past participle gegān
gegangen
auxiliary sīn
indicative subjunctive
singular plural singular plural
present ich gān wir gān i ich gē wir gēn
du gāst ir gāt du gēst ir gēt
ër gāt sie gānt ër gē sie gēn
preterite ich gienc wir giengen ii ich gienge wir giengen
du gienge ir gienget du giengest ir gienget
ër gienc sie giengen ër gienge sie giengen
imperative gā (du) gāt (ir)
Composed forms of gān (irregular, auxiliary sīn)
perfect
singular plural singular plural
indicative ich bin gegān
ich bin gegangen 		wir birn gegān
wir birn gegangen 		subjunctive ich sī gegān
ich sī gegangen 		wir sīn gegān
wir sīn gegangen
du bist gegān
du bist gegangen 		ir birt gegān
ir birt gegangen 		du sīst gegān
du sīst gegangen 		ir sīt gegān
ir sīt gegangen
ër ist gegān
ër ist gegangen 		sie sint gegān
sie sint gegangen 		ër sī gegān
ër sī gegangen 		sie sīn gegān
sie sīn gegangen
pluperfect
indicative ich was gegān
ich was gegangen 		wir wāren gegān
wir wāren gegangen 		subjunctive ich wære gegān
ich wære gegangen 		wir wæren gegān
wir wæren gegangen
du wære gegān
du wære gegangen 		ir wāret gegān
ir wāret gegangen 		du wærest gegān
du wærest gegangen 		ir wæret gegān
ir wæret gegangen
ër was gegān
ër was gegangen 		sie wāren gegān
sie wāren gegangen 		ër wære gegān
ër wære gegangen 		sie wæren gegān
sie wæren gegangen
future i
infinitive gān süln subjunctive i ich sul gān wir suln gān
du sule gān ir sulet gān
ër sul gān sie suln gān
indicative ich sol gān wir sulen gān subjunctive ii ich sölte gān
ich sölde gān 		wir sölten gān
wir sölden gān
du solt gān ir sulet gān du söltest gān
du söldest gān 		ir söltet gān
ir söldet gān
ër sol gān sie sulen gān ër sölte gān
ër sölde gān 		sie sölten gān
sie sölden gān
future ii
infinitive gegān sīn süln
gegangen sīn süln 		subjunctive i ich sul gegān sīn
ich sul gegangen sīn 		wir suln gegān sīn
wir suln gegangen sīn
du sule gegān sīn
du sule gegangen sīn 		ir sulet gegān sīn
ir sulet gegangen sīn
ër sul gegān sīn
ër sul gegangen sīn 		sie suln gegān sīn
sie suln gegangen sīn
indicative ich sol gegān sīn
ich sol gegangen sīn 		wir sulen gegān sīn
wir sulen gegangen sīn 		subjunctive ii ich sölte gegān sīn
ich sölte gegangen sīn
ich sölde gegān sīn
ich sölde gegangen sīn 		wir sölten gegān sīn
wir sölten gegangen sīn
wir sölden gegān sīn
wir sölden gegangen sīn
du solt gegān sīn
du solt gegangen sīn 		ir sulet gegān sīn
ir sulet gegangen sīn 		du söltest gegān sīn
du söltest gegangen sīn
du söldest gegān sīn
du söldest gegangen sīn 		ir söltet gegān sīn
ir söltet gegangen sīn
ir söldet gegān sīn
ir söldet gegangen sīn
ër sol gegān sīn
ër sol gegangen sīn 		sie sulen gegān sīn
sie sulen gegangen sīn 		ër sölte gegān sīn
ër sölte gegangen sīn
ër sölde gegān sīn
ër sölde gegangen sīn 		sie sölten gegān sīn
sie sölten gegangen sīn
sie sölden gegān sīn
sie sölden gegangen sīn

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Northern Kurdish

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gan (present stem -gê-)

  1. to have sexual intercourse with somebody, to fuck somebody

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gan ?

  1. having sex, fucking

Nupe

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gan

  1. to exceed; to surpass
    Èmì mi li gan èmì u. ― My house is cleaner than her house.
    U ge gan kpáátá. ― It's the best. (literally, “It is good surpassing all”)
    Gànsìkiya ligwa gankò. ― The truth washes the hands more than soap.

Usage notes

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Used to construct the comparative and superlative.

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Old Dutch

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *gān.

Verb

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gān

  1. to go

Conjugation

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Conjugation of gān (strong class 7 irregular, suppletive)
infinitive gān
indicative present past
1st person singular gā, gān gienc
2nd person singular gēs, gēst giengi, giengis
3rd person singular gēt gienc
1st person plural gān giengun
2nd person plural gāt giengut
3rd person plural gānt giengun
subjunctive present past
1st person singular gā giengi
2nd person singular gās, gāst giengi, giengis
3rd person singular gā giengi
1st person plural gān giengin
2nd person plural gāt giengit
3rd person plural gān giengin
imperative present
singular gā
plural gāt
participle present past
gāndi gigān, gigangan

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • “gān”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”). The verb was defective in Germanic and may only have existed in the present tense.

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gān

  1. to go
    • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, "Gospel of Saint John", chapter 21, verse 3
      Ðā cwæð Simon Petrus tō him, Ic wylle gān on fixað. Þā cwǣdon hī tō him, And wē wyllað gān mid þē. And hī ēodon ūt, and ēodon on scip, and ne fēngon nān þing on þǣre nihte.
      Then said Simon Peter to them. I want to go fishing. Then they said to him, and we want to go with you. And they went out and went in a ship, and caught nothing in the night.
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
      ...hē wolde gān ūt of ðām porte...
      ...he desired to go out of the town...
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
      ...swā hwǣr swā hē ēode and hī ealle āstōdon ansunde ætforan him þe on ðām fænne ǣr lagon.
      ...wheresoever he went, and they all rose up sound before him, who aforetime lay in the mire.
  2. to walk
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
      ...and hē lēop sona cunniġende his fēðes hwæðer hē cūðe gān.
      and he leapt up immediately, trying his power of motion, whether he could walk.
    • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
      Sē wer meahte unēaðe þurh hine selfne ārīsan oþþe gān.
      The man could barely get up or walk by himself.
    • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 6:66
      Siþþan maniġe his leornungcneohta ċierdon onbæc and lenġ ne ēodon mid him.
      After that, many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.
  3. to enter
    • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 24:38-39
      On þǣm dagum ǣr þǣm flōde wǣron menn etende and drincende, and wīfiġende and ġifte sellende, ōþ þone dæġ þe Nōe on þā earċe ēode, and hīe nysson ǣr sē flōd cōm and nam hīe ealle.
      In the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they didn't know until the flood came and took them all.

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  • The expected present participle, gānde, is very rare. Instead gangende is almost always used, from the synonym gangan: Līf nis būtan gangendu sċadu ("Life is but a walking shadow").

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Conjugation of gān (irregular)
infinitive gān gānne
indicative mood present tense past tense
first person singular gā ēode
second person singular gǣst ēodest
third person singular gǣþ ēode
plural gāþ ēodon
subjunctive present tense past tense
singular gā ēode
plural gān ēoden
imperative
singular gā
plural gāþ
participle present past
gānde (ġe)gān

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Old Frisian

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *gān.

Verb

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gān

  1. to go

Conjugation

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Conjugation of gān (irregular, suppletive)
infinitive gān
indicative present past
1st person singular gā geng
2nd person singular gēst gengest
3rd person singular gēth geng
plural gāth gengun
subjunctive present past
singular gāe genge
plural gāe, gāen genge, gengen
imperative present
singular gā
plural gāth
participle present past
gānde, gangande egangen, gangen

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  • Saterland Frisian: geen (simple past, past participle of gunge)
  • West Frisian: gean

Old High German

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Alternative forms

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  • gēn — see there for more

Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *gān.

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gān

  1. to go

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  • The ā-form was found especially in Alemannic and in western Franconian. In the former, the vocalism was regularized early on (du gās, er gāt); in the latter, the West Germanic vowel alternation (du geis, he geit) has been preserved even to this day.

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Old Saxon

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *gān.

Verb

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gān

  1. to go

Conjugation

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Conjugation of gān (irregular, suppletive)
infinitive gān
indicative present past
1st person singular *gā gēng
2nd person singular *gēs gēngi
3rd person singular gēd gēng
plural *gād gēngun
subjunctive present past
1st person singular *gāe gēngi
2nd person singular *gāes gēngis
3rd person singular *gāe gēngi
plural *gāen gēngin
imperative present
singular *gā
plural *gād
participle present past
gāndi gigangan, gangan

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Salar

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Etymology

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Cognate with Turkmen gan.

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  • (Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Xinjiang) IPA(key): /qɑn/

Noun

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gan

  1. blood

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References

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  • Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “gan”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 460
  • Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “gan”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 218
  • 马伟 [Ma Wei], 朝克 [Chao Ke] (2014) “gan”, in 撒拉语366条会话读本 [Salar 366 Conversation Reader]‎[4], 1st edition, 社会科学文献出版社 [Social Science Literature Press], →ISBN, page 109
  • Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “gan”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎[5], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 104

Scots

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Northern Middle English gan, from Old English gān (“to go”). Past tense supplied by Old English wenden (“to wend”).

Verb

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gan (third-person singular simple present gans, present participle gan, simple past went or wett, past participle been)

  1. to go

Scottish Gaelic

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Pronoun

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gan

  1. them (direct object)
    A bheil sibh gan creidsinn? ― Do you believe them?

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  • Before words beginning with b, f, m or p gam is used instead.
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Sumerian

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Romanization

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gan

  1. Romanization of 𒃶 (gan)

Ternate

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Etymology

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From older gani.

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Noun

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gan

  1. Alternative form of gani (“louse”)

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From English gun.

Noun

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gan

  1. gun

Turkmen

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kān (“blood”). Cognate with Turkish kan.

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Noun

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gan (definite accusative gany, plural ganlar)

  1. blood

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Declension of gan
singular plural
nominative gan ganlar
accusative gany ganlary
genitive ganyň ganlaryň
dative gana ganlara
locative ganda ganlarda
ablative gandan ganlardan

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Further reading

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  • “gan” in Enedilim.com
  • “gan” in Webonary.org

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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From Proto-Vietic *t-kaːn, from Old Chinese 肝 (OC *s.kˤa[r]) (SV: can). Cognate with Chut [Rục] təkaːn¹ ("bold").

Displaced native lòm, now only found in the compounds đỏ lòm and chua lòm.

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(classifier lá) gan

  1. (anatomy) a liver
  2. (figurative) audacity; gall; balls
    to gan ― audacious
    nhát gan / gan thỏ đế ― chicken

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(classifier cây) gan

  1. (botany) Malus doumeri
    Synonym: sơn tra

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gan

  1. hepatic
  2. courageous, brave, tough

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Volapük

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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gan (nominative plural gans)

  1. (male or female) goose

Declension

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declension of gan
singular plural
nominative gan gans
genitive gana ganas
dative gane ganes
accusative gani ganis
vocative 1 o gan! o gans!
predicative 2 ganu ganus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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Derived terms

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Terms derived from gan "goose"

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Welsh

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Welsh cant, from Old Welsh cant, from Proto-Celtic *kanta.[1] Cognate with Breton gant and Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “against; downwards”).

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gan (triggers soft mutation)

  1. (North Wales) used with bod to indicate possession
    Synonym: gyda
    Mae gen i wallt hir.
    I have long hair.
    (literally, “Long hair is with me.”)
  2. by (after a passive construction)
    Cafodd y car ei ddwyn gan ddau llanc.
    The car was stolen by two youths.
  3. by (authorship)
  4. used with verbal noun to indicate an action simultaneous with that of the main verb, while, whilst
    • King, Gareth (1993) Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars), London and New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 131:
      Aeth o gwmpas y stafell gan ofyn yr un cwestiwn i bawb.
      He went around the room [while] asking everyone the same question.
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See gan on Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru for more information.

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Personal forms (literary)
Singular Plural
First person gennyf gennym
Second person gennyt gennych
Third person ganddo m
ganddi f 		ganddynt
Personal forms (colloquial)
Singular Plural
First person gen i, gin i gennyn ni, ganddon ni, gynnon ni
Second person gen ti, gin ti gennych chi, ganddoch chi, gynnoch chi
Third person ganddo fe/fo, gynno fo m
ganddi hi, gynni hi f 		gennyn nhw, ganddyn nhw, gynnyn nhw

Etymology 2

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gan

  1. Soft mutation of can.

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gan

  1. Soft mutation of can.

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  1. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gan”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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Mutated forms of can
radical soft nasal aspirate
can gan nghan chan

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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gan (definite form gan gi)

  1. stranger
  2. guest

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Etymology 1

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gàn

  1. (transitive) to disparage, criticize, belittle
    Synonyms: pẹ̀gàn, ṣáátá, ṣàbùkù, kẹ́gàn
    ọ̀tá mí gàn mí ― my enemy disparages me
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  • gan before a direct object
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gan

  1. (intransitive) to become stiff, to harden
    kankéré ti gan ― The concrete has hardened
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gán

  1. (transitive) to stub, to clear (plants or a forest)
    Synonym: ṣán
    àgbẹ́ gán' igbó ― The farmer cleared the forest
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gán

  1. to use something very sparingly
    Synonym: sún
    mo ń gán owó lò ― I am using money very sparingly
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gán

  1. to hit something with a thrown or spun object
    mo ń gán owó lò ― I am using money very sparingly
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gán

  1. to tack or stich something together
    Synonym: rán
    mo gán etí aṣọ pọ̀ ― I hemmed the edge of the cloth together
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  • gbá (“to stich together the edges of a mat”)

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gán

  1. to snatch something in the air, especially with one hand
    Synonyms: hán, wọ́n
    mo fọwọ́ gán bọ́ọ̀lù náà pákó ― I used my hand to snatch the ball swiftly from the air
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