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.

From Proto-Germanic *gāną.

*gān^[1]

1. to go

*gaiþi, ?, ?

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• *gangī

• 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:

    • 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:

      Pennsylvania German: geh

    • Yiddish: גיין (geyn)