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Old English · verb

onweg gan

Part of speech
verb
IPA
/onˈwej ˌɡɑːn/
Syllables
on · ˈwej · ˌɡɑːn (3 syllables)

Meaning

  1. to go away

    Sē ēadega wer cwæþ tō his ġebrōðrum, "Gāþ onweġ! Nis þis nā ūru dǣd, ac is þāra hālgena apostola."

    The blessed man told his brothers, "Go away! This [resurrecting a dead body] isn't something we do, it's an act of the holy apostles."

    c. 992, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *in weg gān; note that in was regularly replaced with on during the separate prehistory of Old English, specifically in the West Saxon dialect. Cognate with Dutch weggaan and German weggehen.

Descendants

go away

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