hangian

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hangēn.

Pronunciation

Verb

hangian

  1. (intransitive) to hang
  2. (intransitive) to depend (with on + dative = on something)

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Middle English: hangen (merged with hōn)
    • English: hang
    • Scots: hangit (simple past of hing (to execute using gallows))

References

  1. ^ hing, v., n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries: “The form hangit is from the pr. stem hang, Mid.Eng. hangen, in O.Sc. referring gen. only to judicial hanging.”.