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Old English · noun

ymbgang

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
strong a-stem
IPA
/ˈymbˌɡɑnɡ/
[ˈymbˌɡɑŋɡ]
Syllables
ˈymb · ˌɡɑnɡ (2 syllables)
Modern English
circumnavigationumgangorbitcircumference

Meaning

  1. circumnavigation, orbit

  2. circuit (path around a space)

    c. 994, Ælfric, https://books.google.co.id/books?id=iqCU4ZV4pjoC&pg=PA8De Anno (On the Year)]

    Now, you might understand that the person who goes around a single house has a smaller circuit than the one who goes around the whole city.

  3. circumference

    Sēo ċyrċe wæs eahtahyrnede, ān hund fōta and twentiġ fōta hēah; six hund fōta and fēowertig hēo wæs ymbeganges, eal of fidersċītum marmstānum ġeworht.

    The church was eight-sided, one hundred and twenty feet high, six hundred and forty feet in circumference, and wrought entirely of rectangular blocks of marble.

    Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

Declension

Declension of ymbgang
SingularPlural
Nominative ymbgangymbgangas
Accusative ymbgangymbgangas
Genitive ymbgangesymbganga
Dative ymbgangeymbgangum

All forms (6)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *umbigang, from Proto-Germanic *umbigangaz. Equivalent to ymb- + gang.

Descendants

umgang

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