Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gān
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Proto-West Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *gāną.
Verb
[edit]*gān[1]
- to go
Inflection
[edit]*gaiþi, ?, ?
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Old English: gān
- Old Frisian: gān
- Old Saxon: gān
- Old Dutch: gān
- Old High German: gān, gēn
- Middle High German: gān, gēn, kēn
- Alemannic German: gaa, gan, ge, gi, goo, gu
- Bavarian: geh, gea, gean, gian
- Cimbrian: gian, ghéenan
- Northern Bavarian: [ɡ̊ɛi]
- Central Franconian: giehn, gohn, john, jonn
- 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)
- Middle High German: gān, gēn, kēn
References
[edit]- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109: “*gān”