onweg gan

Old English

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.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /onˈwej ˌɡɑːn/

Verb

onweġ gān

to go away
- c. 992, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"
  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."

Conjugation

See gān.

Descendants

Middle English: go awey
- English: go away

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